The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) image
ISBN-10:

0812967194

ISBN-13:

9780812967197

Author(s): JAMES,HENRY
Edition: Modern Library
Released: Apr 08, 2003
Publisher: Modern Library
Format: Paperback, 768 pages
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Description:

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”











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