Access Today The Portrait Of A Lady [Volume 1] Articulated By Henry James Compiled As EText

book started well, I was intrigued by the various characters, particularly Isabel and Henrietta, and hopeful because of the way in which all the potential plot seeds were planted.
This was a novel that had the potential to bear a lot of fruit,

I read this on the Kindle and even though it was clearly labelled Volume, I deluded myself into thinking that as occasionally happens with free public domain downloads it was mislabelled.
Surely it was the whole book, and even though we were meandering through very boring character development and almost no plot, I expected that at about thecomplete mark, things would start moving again and bring this book to an a fruitful end.


Nope. We endured an extremely long drought and when we finished Volume, we had finally introduced all the characters of note, I hope. There are even more seeds of plot planted and there are myriad story lines that could grow from all of this sowing.

And I don't care, I am so intensely bored I can not bring myself to read Volume, Beautiful words, beautiful phrases, full of wisdom of another era, لوحةلوجهسيدة
صورةسيدةالجزءالأول

رالف الشاب الامريكي المتخرج من جامعتي هارفرد و اكسفورد و يعيش معتلا بداء الرئة برفقة والده المريض في احدي ضواحي انجلترا الريفية.
يفاجئ بمقدم ابنة خالة له قادمة من أمريكا لم يعرف بوجودها

أبدا تأتي إيزابيل بعد وفاة والدها بعدة اشهر و هي ترتدي السواد
تأتي بصفات هادئة جريئة و بعقل متقد و رغبة شديدة للمعرفة و الأكثر للحرية
لأن تكون حرة أمرها
يشعر القصر الصغير كله بالنشاط بعد ان سكنته تلك الفاتنة الصغيرة و يتأثر السيد توشيت الكبير بها تأثرا صادقا و يعجب بها و بثرثراتها معه و يشعر المجتمع البريطاني من حولها بإستثنائية هذه الفتاة و جمالها
و لكن ماذا عساها تريد حقا

البحث عن الذات من خلال الذات نفسها اكتشاف العنصر الإنساني من حولها
تعزيز الافكار بالثقافات العديدة و تراثها و الماضي الخاص بها
وجود الناس من كل مكان بافكارهم المختلفة و الغريبة بعض الاحيان
يا تري كيف ستخطط إيزابيل لإدارة حياتها و ما مدي صوابية ارائها
و كيف سيخطط رالف لحياتها أيضا
و هل ستصيب أيا من أرائهما
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تقييمي,/Henry James is impervious to my praise or condemnation, This is a book that judges the reader, not the other way around, After reading the New Yorker article about Michael Gorra's examination of this book and listening to the audio version, I started reading.
I was hooked from the beginning, Isabel Archer is one of the greatest women in literature, Having finished the first volume of this compelling story, I am looking forward to the second half with anticipation, A simultaneous reading of Gorra's Portrait of a Novel adds a level of enjoyment and understanding of the novel's place in James' life and works.
Interesantă întratât încât să tot caut finalul, să văd ce se întâmplă până la urmă în cel deai doilea volum și.
. cea mai frumos scrisă limbajul vremii, cuvintele aranjate, expresii, inversiuni, metafore, mod de expunere carte citită de până acum, . . elegantă, fină, un pic spre rafinată, aleasă, This review is of the entirety of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and not just Volumeof this particular edition, I made my decision to reconsider Henry James with some small bit of trepidation, I first read two James novellas in High School Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller and found both to be overwritten, long and on the whole tedious reads.
Portrait of a Lady was even more imposing as it is a massive tome, However, I am now firmly convinced that I was just too young at the time to truly appreciate James' style, Portrait of a Lady is a beautifully written masterpiece, It delves into familiar thematic ground for James the clash between Old World European mores and New World American sensibilities but does so in a way that still seems fresh and alive today.
The Lady in question is Isabel Archer, She travels first to England and then on to the Continent through the intersession of a beneficent Aunt, Bright, charming, independent, prideful, naive, Isabel is a towering creation and her journey from innocence to experience is a powerful achievement, A wonderful testament to the importance of individual freedom and a reminder that freedom often means a freedom to make the wrong choice and that a person of true honor accepts the consequences of their choices without excuse or equivocation.
Definitely puts me in a frame of mind to revisit the prior James shorter works that I previously didn't appreciate especially Turn of the Screw.
Highly recommended. marked it as toread Basically I am logging these books as, rather than one because long novels SHOULD count asbooks for the yearly reading challenge.
I love long and beastly books,

So far Portrait of a Lady is shaping up to be just "meh" period literature, Fortunately I have a fondness forth century novels, I don't know how this will end, but I'm sensing that this will end up looking a lot like a Far From the Madding Crowd situation.
Isabel will fall for Osmond who turns out to be something of a con artist, He will be her downfall, and she'll realize that a good man was waiting for her the whole time in Lord Warburton or her cousin Ralph.
Those English folk did like marrying their cousins, I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised by a different outcome, as I continue to volume, .