1881The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
The spirited young American Isabel Archer, come into a fortune, prizes her freedom above all and chooses, of all her suitors, the one who will cage her, the cold aesthete Gilbert Osmond. James follows her across a real transatlantic world: the Touchetts' English house on the Thames, London, the Florence where Osmond weaves his trap, and the Rome where the marriage closes around her like a beautiful prison.
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