Isabel Archer, a spirited young American who inherits a fortune, chooses a marriage that slowly reveals itself as a trap laid by scheming expatriates. A subtle drama of independence, illusion, and consequence.
Books that mention The Portrait of a Lady (6)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster: “settling down... to The Portrait of a Lady”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “I could locate the house-and-garden imagery in The Portrait of a Lady as well as the next person”
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova: “she stepped in automatically when I encountered Madame Merle, the personable schemer in Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady.”
Letting Go by Philip Roth: “I was reading Portrait of a Lady, and it was into its pages that I slid the envelopes and its single sheet of barely legible prose.”
The Facts by Philip Roth: “whose Portrait of a Lady had been a virtual handbook during the early drafts of Letting Go”