About this book
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.</p> <p>'Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.'</p> <p>Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future - one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and scheming dilettante.</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperPress
- Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 768
- ISBN
- 9780007902286
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
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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