
The Portrait of a Lady
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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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By:
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Henry James
About this listen
The Portrait of a Lady tells the compelling and ultimately tragic tale of a beautiful young American woman's encounter with European sophistication. Set principally in England and Italy, the story follows Isabel Archer's fortunes as a variety of admirers vie for her hand. Her choice will be crucial, and she is not wanting for advice, whether from the generous-spirited Ralph Touchett or the charming Madame Merle.
The Portrait of a Lady was an immediate success upon publication; it remains the most popular of James' longer works and is generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early period.
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Public Domain (P)2016 Naxos AudioBooksExcellent
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gripping novel
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wonderful
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The novel is one of the great 19th-century novels and deserved a fine reading. I recommend also her reading of the novels of Virginia Woolf.
Juliet Stevenson
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Ok
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Disappointing
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Narrator
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Hard going
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very clever and compelling novel
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I had to read this as part of a book group and decided as I had read this twenty years ago but not since, to listen on Audible as I cycled to work and back.
It is an almost moment by moment description of a life story that reveals a very unpleasant manipulative relationship that ruins a life. I felt often it was like witnessing a horrible car accident in slow motion. For 28 hours. I also painted a room and listened to this as it is very slow, detailed, drawn out and often painful. However as much as I often dreaded the next bit, and so wished life is not as it so often is for so many, it is an excellent chronicle of manipulation for money.
Today we might watch Made in Chelsea or another desperate slow mo break up of a love story of very rich people but this novel is effectively the same thing but set in Victorian Europe and concerns the behaviour of American society abroad.
Excellent reading by Juliet Stevenson
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