A dying American heiress, her scheming friend, and the man they both love form a slow tragedy of money and betrayal. One of James's late masterpieces.
Books mentioned in The Wings of the Dove (1)
The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray: “She could relate to Susie later on, late the same evening, that the legend, before she had done with it, had run clear, that the adored author of The Newcomes, in fine, had been on the whole the note: the picture lacking thus more than she had hoped, or rather perhaps showing less than she had feared, a certain possibility of Pickwickian…”
Books that mention The Wings of the Dove (5)
The Secret City by Hugh Walpole: “whether it be The Woman in White, The Wings of the Dove, or The Roads”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “be it Dame's Divine Comedy or Henry James's The Wings ofthe Dove”
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “the quality of excruciation in much of Henry James (for instance, The Europeans, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove)”
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag: “...it is the quality of excruciation in much of Henry James (for instance, The Europeans, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove) that is responsible for the large element of Camp in his writings.”
The Facts by Philip Roth: “would surely have talked about The Wings of the Dove very much like my ebullient fellow student”