{"id":3823,"date":"2015-04-21T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:03:09","slug":"which-book-would-you-read-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/which-book-would-you-read-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Book Would You Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Author: Henry James<\/p>\n ISBN:\u00a09780141199122<\/p>\n Widely regarded as\u00a0Henry James\u2019s greatest masterpiece,\u00a0The Portrait of a Lady<\/i>\u00a0features one of the author\u2019s most magnificent heroines: Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American who becomes a victim of her provincialism during her travels in Europe.<\/p>\n As the story begins, Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, has turned down two eligible suitors. Her cousin, who is dying of tuberculosis, secretly gives her an inheritance so that she can remain independent and fulfill a grand destiny, but the fortune only leads her to make a tragic choice and marry Gilbert Osmond, an American expatriate who lives in Florence. Outwardly charming and cultivated, but fundamentally cold and cruel, Osmond only brings heartbreak and ruin to Isabel\u2019s life. Yet she survives as she begins to realize that true freedom means living with her choices and their consequences.<\/p>\n Richly complex and nearly aesthetically perfect,\u00a0The Portrait of a Lady<\/i>\u00a0brilliantly portrays the clash between the innocence and exuberance of the New World and the corruption and wisdom of the Old.<\/p>\n Price: 15.0\u00a0\u10da<\/p>\nBuy the Book<\/a>\n <\/p>\n
<\/a>The Portrait of a Lady<\/strong><\/p>\n