An Italian prince's marriage to a wealthy American heiress is complicated by the arrival of her father's new wife, a woman from the prince's own past, in James's intricate late study of marriage and betrayal.
Books mentioned in The Golden Bowl (1)
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe: “a wonderful tale by Allan Poe, his prospective wife's countryman … the story of the shipwrecked Gordon Pym, who, drifting in a small boat further toward the North Pole”
Books that mention The Golden Bowl (6)
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole: “the great creator of "The Golden Bowl"”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “to risk having the result compared widely and unfavorably to The Golden Bowl”
On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín: “Giovanni's Room, like Henry James's late novel The Golden Bowl, inhabits fictional space that is heavily circumscribed”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “In his preface to The Golden Bowl, he explains how he decided which minor character he would choose”
Artful by Ali Smith: “got down Volume 1 of your old 1909 copy of Henry James's The Golden Bowl”
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney: “Just remind me that I have an idea for an essay about ‘The Golden Bowl’ that I want to run by you.”