- Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction
Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman.
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Prestige, classical in form, contemplative and earnest.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Henry James
- First published
- October 1996
- Pages
- 608
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co., Penguin Books, Limited, Just Publishers
- Editions
- 432
- Language
- German, lat, Swedish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781539686262
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- Social life and customs
- Manners and customs
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters, fiction
- Italy, fiction
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Married people, fiction
- Archer, isabel (fictitious character), fiction
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, psychological
- Fathers and daughters
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Henry James, was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
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