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Henry James

Henry James OM son of theologian Henry James Sr brother of the philosopher and
psychologist William James and diarist Alice James was an American born author
one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction He spent much
of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death He
is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the
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Glenn Sumi

10 Things I Love About Henry James’s The Portrait Of A Lady1 Isabel ArcherThe
“lady” in the title Beautiful young headstrong and spirited the American woman
visits her wealthy relatives in England rejects marriage proposals by two worthy
suitors inherits a fortune and then is manipulated into marrying one of the most
odious creatures on the planet Gilbert Osmond She’s utterly fascinating and if I
were back in university I imagine having long conversations and arguments about
her character What does she want Freedom? The ability to choose even if it’s a
bad choice? Is she a projection of James’s latent homosexuality? Is she a
feminist or not? There are no simple answers 2 The Prose and Psychological
ComplexityDamn James knew how to write long luxuriant sentences that dig deep
into his characters’ minds Sometimes the effect can be claustrophobic – get me
out of this person’s head – but often it’s utterly compelling and convincing We
partly read fiction to learn about other people’s lives right? Well James does
that The exceptions Isabel’s two wealthy handsome suitors Warburton and Goodwood
are less than believable and remind me of eager or horny? dogs their tails
wagging whenever they’re around their lovelust object3 The StoryOkay not much
really happens But as the book progressed even though I sort of knew the outcome
it’s hard to avoid spoilers from a 135 year old classic I was increasingly
curious to see how Isabel would act In fact I raced through the final chapters
breathlessly Who knew Henry James page turner And have a theory about that
ending? Take your turn4 The HumourIt’s not a comedy but there are lots of
amusing bits James’s narrator is genial and funny Henrietta Stackpole her
gentleman friend Mr Bantling and even Gilbert Osmond’s sister the Countess
Gemini are all very colourful characters who elicit a chuckle or two And
Isabel’s aunt can be terribly cutting as well I love Ralph Isabel's cousin and
the dignified British Lord Warburton’s reactions to the enterprising no fuss
American “lady journalist” Henrietta 5 The SettingsEach one is significant from
the st...show more
K.D. Absolutely

SPOILER ALERT Read at your own riskMy first time to read a book by Henry
JamesReading The Portrait of a Lady said to be his finest novel is like getting
your workout at a gymAfter a day’s work you are tired You are already zapped of
energy You feel like going to a bar and have a couple of beer listening to a
funky live band or the crooning of a lovely young lady Or you want to go to a
nearby mall and sit in the comfort of a dark movie house Probably sleep to rest
for a couple of hours if the movie turns out to be boringBut you decide to go as
you planned at the start of the day Your gym bag is in your car You drag your
heavy feet to the parking lot To the gym You know you have to do it your friend
has been telling you that Henry James is good but you imagine the taste of cold
beer uenching your thirst or the soft seat inside the theater or the pretty
songbird wearing a plunging neckline or showing her slim smooth legs there are
uick reads waiting for you like Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 or that Flowers for
Argenon by Daniel Keyes But you know your body needs exercise You are becoming
fatter heavier and your waistline is expanding You resisted the uick but empty
lure of beer or sleep at the movie house Your heart is telling you that Henry
James is an author to read Like a zombie you continued sleepwalking to the
gymAfter changing to your gym attire You step on the treadmill The solitude of
working out In the gym you rarely talk to anyone Henry James used a style that
was distinctively his wordy yet illuminating You are by yourself Most of your
friends don’t care about Henry James You begin to walk Warm up After a couple of
minutes you increase the speed Chug Chug Chug It goes on and on His storytelling
went on and on His characters came from New York to England went to Paris then
to Rome and then went back to England and finally went back to Rome After the
treadmill you lift some weights as you also need to tone some muscles His
characters were varied There was Isabel Archer fighting for her independence by
refusing marriage proposals like there w...show more
Lizzy

For my dear friend Jeffrey Keeten I would not have read it if it were not for
you Thanks Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady touched me deeply Since I
finished this novel a few days ago I could not seem to stop thinking about it as
I tried to organize my feelings That I was mesmerized by it there is no doubt So
much that the search for its understanding has occupied practically all my free
moments And to fully grasp it I could not do without Henry James masterful help
so forgive me if you find I uote him too often Oh but this is a work in progress
so forgive me again for any inaccuracy or inconsistency 1 The complexity of
Isabel Archer Millions of presumptuous girls intelligent or not intelligent
daily affront their destiny and what is it open to their destiny to be at the
most that we should make an ado about it? The novel is of its very nature an ado
an ado about something and the larger the form it takes the greater of course
the ado Therefore consciously that was what one was in for—for positively
organising an ado about Isabel Archer Portrait of a Lady is the story of a young
American woman Isabel Archer and her voyage of self discovery I loved getting
into Isabel's conflicted mind her doubts and her confidence her wishes and her
choices I went even further and identified thoroughly with Isabel Archer I could
relate to her conflicted mind her dreams and ultimate choices She was a pleasure
to know because she is so extraordinarily complex complex in a way that
fictional people seldom areFrom the first we learn how Isabel valued her freedom
in a dialogue with her cousin Ralph ‘Adopted me?’ The girl stared and her blush
came back to her together with a momentary look of pain‘Oh no; she has not
adopted me I’m not a candidate for adoption’‘I beg a thousand pardons’ Ralph
murmured ‘I meant ‘You meant she has taken me up Yes; she likes to take people
up but’ she added with a certain visible eagerness of desire to be explicit ‘I’m
very fond of my liberty’ The secondary characters are there to explain Isabel
Archer as Henry James tells us “they are there for what they are worth the
defi...show more
Petra-Eggs Sunny Side Up

I've been reading a lot of Anthony Trollope's books recently and the stories
characters and writing is so much superior to this that I just can't get into it
Frothy is a word that comes to mind also was he paid by the word? like Dickens I
finished the book finally It was a chore I did not find James' portrayal of a
woman's personality convincing That even though she had the financial power
which was the reason why her husband had married her she would still allow
herself to be physically and emotionally abused and humiliated It seemed to be a
very conventional view of a woman that eventually she would give in to her Lord
and Master A woman with an ounce of independence she did have an ounce maybe
even two at the beginning would not be the sad creature she was at the end
Marriages were made in light of money and status in those times in this book she
had both he had neither there had to be some sort of mental shift that that
would allow her to pretend that these were her husband's and she was in the
lower and grateful position But James didn't write it so 'Portrait' really
didn't make senseNone of the characters evil good or milk water gained my
sympathy Pansy the daughter nearly did but I wanted to shake her and say 'how
could you have lived all these years and not suspected who your mother is? Your
father has palmed you off on the nuns all these years what's with this
unuestioning obedience? Its your step mother has the money not him she's the one
who can help you would help younot your daddy who just wants you to achieve his
own social climbing ambitions' I just don't see James as a man who understood
women enough to write about them from any but a man's perspectiveI watched the
Nichole Kidman film of the book and although Kidman did her best to flesh out
the character she was no rounded than in the book And Poppy's submissiveness and
ignorance were even unbelievable Obviously to James the main characteristic he
associated with women and interpreted thusly by the director was
submissivenessHenry James may have deserved his...show more
Fionnuala

I had many wonderful moments while reading this book moments when the writing
halted the reading when I had to pause and admire and wonder Moments when the
book seemed to speak to my own experience as if it were written expressly for
the girl who was me at twenty two causing me to wonder how Henry James could
have guessed so well the presumptuous ideas I had about life and love at that
early stage All of that is very personal of course and not necessarily of
interest to other readers but there were other moments in my reading of The
Portrait of a Lady that better merit mention in a review I had read this book
before about twenty years ago so although I knew the bare bones of the story I
remembered few of the details I certainly had no recollection of reading a
particular scene from early in the story the one in which Isabel Archer meets a
stranger in her aunt’s house And yet there was something about the lead up to
that scene that caught my attention this time the house is very still because
Isabel’s uncle is dying Out of the silence comes the sound of someone playing
the piano Wonderingly Isabel makes her way toward the source of the harmony
Those six words were like a bell ringing in my mind I felt a sharpening of
interest an awareness of how pivotal this moment would be in the story I
remember thinking I've been reading this book with all senses on alert and this
is my reward; I've sensed the author’s excitement at the turn his story is about
to take There was another scene later in the book when I had a similar feeling
of change about to happen Isabel sits up late one night in Rome pondering a
difficult decision indeed pondering all the decisions in her life so far The
reader watches with her and wonders how she will act And wonders again when she
finally doesThere are other major shifts in the narrative but none stood out for
me uite the way those two did In fact Henry James purposely avoids describing
the most significant shift of all by skipping a three year section of Isabel’s
life completely—which is a very effective narrative device of course introducing
both surprise an...show more
Paul Bryant

Ugh ech the elitism that breeds in readers We think we're such nicey cosy
bookworms and wouldn't harm a fly but we seethe we do Of course readers of books
just naturally look down on those who don't read at all In fact they try not to
think of those people nine tenths of the human race I suppose but a tenth of the
human race is still a big number because it makes them shudder How lovely it
would be to go riding in a carriage through some dreadful council estate
flinging free copies of Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway right and left although Ulysses
might catch some of those urchins a hefty blow on the temple which might cause a
shift in their brain landscape and evoke a sudden craving for modernist novels
like when people are struck by a bus and wake up talking in a French accent that
can happen So that's one obvious kind of reader elitism But then some readers
think that what the majority of readers actually read is appalling
Hungervinciboneskitehelpslappery Twilit Shades of Pottery doo dah It's not that
you read it's what you read Of course And then amongst those elevated readers
some literary authors are considered greater than some others why are you
wasting your time with William Gaddis when you could be knee deep in Proust
dwarling? I simply don't understand it And then even when you scale the heights
and find yourself munching down some Henry James like he was the last well done
steak with Chateau Lafleur you were going to get before your solo trek no
huskies to the south pole you still get it oh dwarling why are you still
dillydallying in the Middle Period when you still haven't read The Golden Bowl
you naughty Jamesian youThus it is that I say oh no not The Portrait of a Lady
Too too obvious Try The Awkward Age or The Ambassadors Much better
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Ahmad Sharabiani

The Portrait of a lady Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry
James first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's
Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881 It is one of James's most popular
long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest The Portrait of a
Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman Isabel Archer who in
confronting her destiny finds it overwhelming She inherits a large amount of
money and subseuently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two
American expatriates Like many of James's novels it is set in Europe mostly
England and Italy Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period
this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the
New World and the Old often to the detriment of the former It also treats in a
profound way the themes of personal freedom responsibility and betrayalتاریخ
نخستین خوانش روز نوزدهم ماه نوامبر سال 1971میلادیعنوان تصویر یک زن؛ اثر هنری
جیمز؛ مترجم مجید مسعودی؛ نشر تهران، در دو جلد، 1348، در 866 ص، جلد دوم در 31 و
433 ص؛عنوان تصویر یک زن؛ اثر هنری جیمز؛ مترجم مجید مسعودی؛ ویراستار عنایت سمیعی؛
نشر تهران، نیلوفر شرکت انتشارات علمی فرهنگی، چاپ دوم از ویراست دوم 1390، در 798
ص، شابک 9789644484964؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان آمریکایی سده 19 مشخصیت اصلی
داستان، چنانکه ‌از عنوان کتاب برمی‌آید یک زن است؛ زنی جوان به ‌نام «ایزابل آرچر»
ایزابل دخترآمریکاییِ معصوم و جذابی‌ ست که ‌بنا به ‌پیشنهاد خاله‌ ی خود، خانم
تاچت، و تحت حمایت او، از آمریکا به ‌انگلستان می‌آید هنری جیمز داستان را ـ که ‌54
فصل دارد، و ترجمه ‌ی فارسی آن 866 صفحه ‌است ـ در انگلستان و در محوطه‌ ی چمن وسیع
خانه‌ ی خاله‌ ی ایزابل آغاز می‌کند حاضرین در صحنه، ‌سه ‌نفر هستند که ‌هر سه
‌نقشی تعیین کننده ‌در زندگی ایزابل ایفا خواهند کرد؛ شوهر خاله‌ ی ایزابل، آقای
تاچت، پسر خاله ی ‌بیمار و دوست داشتنی او، رالف، و دوست خانوادگی تاچت‌ها، لرد
واربرتنِ سی و پنج ساله‌ ی جذاب، مجرد و بسیار ثروتمند ا شربیانی
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Renato Magalhães Rocha

Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady is considered to be one of the first
American novels to make full use of social and psychological realism as European
authors such as Flaubert Balzac and George Eliot were already practicing in
their works Considered to be his biggest accomplishment along with The
Ambassadors Portrait added Isabel Archer to the company of great fictional
heroines as the likes of Elizabeth Bennet Becky Sharp and Jane Eyre and in a
century marked by unsatisfied bourgeois wives and adultery in fiction Madame
Bovary and Anna Karenina come to mind it was a breath of fresh air to accompany
and delve into James' protagonist's thoughts and inner feelingsStarting with a
very slow pace the narrative contains long and elaborate descriptions It feels
James is painting a richly detailed picture for every scene As we arrive in
Gardencourt the Touchett's English country estate where our story opens and
closes we encounter Mr Touchett his son Ralph and a family friend called Lord
Warburton Among other things they discuss how Mrs Lydia Touchett is in America
and will bring along her niece called Isabel Archer to visit EuropeIsabel is a
young woman from Albany New York who accepts her aunt's offer to initially stay
with her in Gardencourt and then later travel through the continent eager to
explore and be enriched by the places she's never been before and experience
life at its fullest Upon her arrival we begin to learn what her ideals and plans
are along with her hopes and dreamsSince the beginning her cousin Ralph seems to
have been as curious as we were to see what Isabel would make of her life In a
way we almost could say Ralph was conducting an experiment Isabel had an
independent mind she was emotionally and psychologically self sufficient didn't
seem inclined to get married for the time being which was different for a girl
of her age at the time She was thirsty for knowledge first and foremost “I don’t
want to begin life by marrying” Isabel asserts to Ralph “There are other things
a woman can do But without money ho...show more
James

Book Review 3 out of 5 stars for The Portrait of a Lady a classic story called
the Great American Novel written by Henry James in 1881 I adore Henry James and
found great enjoyment in his literary works when I began reading him in my
freshmen year at college As an English major I was exposed to many different
authors but I felt a strong connection with him and this literary period
American realistic works spoke to me above any of the other classic books I had
been reading As a result I chose Henry James as the primary focus of an
independent study course I'd taken in my senior year I read 6 or 7 of his books
during those 3 months and am going back now to provide uick reviews as not
everyone finds him as enjoyable as I do I also don't want to bore everyone with
a lengthy review on how to interpret him or his booksThe Portrait of a Lady
tells the story of a young woman who years to have her own life and make her own
mark on the world She doesn't want to be contained by marriage or the structure
in place at the time in the late 19th century She has different characteristics
coming from American English and continental European female archetypes She has
strong moral and ethical values She knows who she is yet she does not know all
As she moves through life she makes choices that are not easy for her to execute
What I loved about this work is its deep exploratory view points beautiful
language and unparalleled characters Though I only give it a 3 when compared to
some of this other works I would recommend you read a few chapters or sections
just to see if it is something you could find yourself getting lost inThe impact
you feel upon reading this book is uestioning what is the true view of a lady
how is she different from generation to generate location to location and
societal class to societal class James knows women He is very accurate on many
levels wrong on a few too But to put out his thoughts in a huge tome at a time
when women were beginning to get rights and be able to cross genres and genders
is amazing It's less about...show more
Natalia

UghIf I could describe this book in one word it would be Laborious If I were
allowed space which apparently I am I would go on to say that in addition to
being deathly slow and horrifically boring it is also a little brilliant a
little impressive and if you have the patience to look for it than a little
interesting There's a LOT in here James wanted this novel to be the antidote to
the Jane Austen romance He wanted to show life as it is money as a burden
marriage as a trap and people as egotistic petty manipulative and kindIf I told
you how disappointing the ending is though you wouldn't want to read it so I
won't mention that If you have the patience it's worth reading but not unless
you read it closely I recommend a Norton Critical Edition
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