{"product_id":"golden-bowl","title":"Golden Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work both continues and challenges his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl \u003c\/i\u003econtains a chronology, suggested further reading, a glossary, notes and an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazall discussing James's original conception of the novel and later changes made to its structure and characters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.\u003cbr\u003eHis novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e (1880), \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e (1881), \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew\u003c\/i\u003e (1897), \u003ci\u003eThe Awkward Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1899), \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove \u003c\/i\u003e(1902) and \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e (1903).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Theodor Fontaine's \u003ci\u003eEffi Briest\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderfully luminous drama'\u003cbr\u003eGore Vidal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written'\u003cbr\u003eA.N. Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251029627224,"sku":"9780141441276","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141441276_f91cd444-135b-4e47-83ba-3e5878125b5c.jpg?v=1764696638","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/golden-bowl","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}