THE AMERICAN COLLINS — HENRY JAMES

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar HENRY JAMES Dil İNGİLİZCE Yıl 2010

Yayınevi COLLINS CLASSICS Yazar HENRY JAMES Dil İNGİLİZCE Yıl 2010

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best loved essential classics Money s a horrid thing to follow but a charming thing to meet Isabel Archer is a beautiful intelligent and independent young woman Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband Isabel is determined to shape her own future one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means However a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond a worthless yet ambitious and scheming dilettante

Kate Croy is a beautiful but impoverished young woman forced to live with her successful but astringent Aunt Maude Lower Lower intends Kate to marry the aristocratic Lord Mark but she is already in love with a journalist Merton Densher Though their lack of money prevents the two from marrying the destitute couple soon become friends with Milly Theale an American heiress with an ambiguous ailment and an obvious affection for Densher As Theale s health grows worse Kate weaves a web of intrigue that pushes Densher into Theale s arms in the hopes of securing her fortune Theale retreats to Venice in the last throes of her sickness and Densher realizing the extent of Kate s manipulation forces her to choose between money and love

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