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Мегги Вервер, дочь американского миллионера Адама Вервера, коллекционера и тонкого ценителя художественных ценностей, выходит замуж за князя Америго — молодого итальянца из обедневшего аристократического рода. Мегги влюблена и счастлива, однако ее тревожит мысль, что ее давно овдовевший отец, увлеченный совершенствованием своей коллекции, останется совсем один. Накануне свадьбы Мегги знакомит отца с давней подругой — очаровательной американкой Шарлоттой Стэнт, полагая, что тому пойдет на пользу общество молодой особы. Мегги не осознает, что, впуская в дом обольстительную женщину, рискует быть преданной и обманутой… Генри Джеймс (1843—1916),…

A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave the security of her childhood and try to reassemble the pieces of her shattered happiness. In this, the last of his three great poetic masterpieces, James combined with a dazzling virtuosity elements of social comedy, of mystery, terror, and myth.…

Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption.

With an Introduction and Notes by Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in…

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of Jamess young American heroines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution. The golden bowl, first seen in a London curio shop, is used emblematically throughout the novel. Not solid gold but gilded crystal, the perfect surface conceals a…

The wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his shy daughter, Maggie, live in Europe, closely tied through their love of art and their mutual admiration. Maggie’s future seems assured when she becomes the wife of a charming, though impoverished, Italian prince. But when Adam marries his daughter’s friend Charlotte Stant, unaware that she is the prince’s mistress, the stage is set for a complex and indirect battle between the two wives. The brilliant Charlotte is determined to keep her lover, while Maggie is determined to protect her beloved father from any knoweldge of their shared betrayal. The acuity with which Henry James…

Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption.

Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism. The gilded crystal bowl with its almost invisible flaw is the vehicle which James uses to reveal past misdemeanours and make his characters face their own defects in this classic tale of redemption.

Мегги Вервер, дочь американского миллионера Адама Вервера, коллекционера и тонкого ценителя художественных ценностей, выходит замуж за князя Америго — молодого итальянца из обедневшего аристократического рода. Мегги влюблена и счастлива, однако ее тревожит мысль, что ее давно овдовевший отец, увлеченный совершенствованием своей коллекции, останется совсем один. Накануне свадьбы Мегги знакомит отца с давней подругой — очаровательной американкой Шарлоттой Стэнт, полагая, что тому пойдет на пользу общество молодой особы. Мегги не осознает, что, впуская в дом обольстительную женщину, рискует быть преданной и обманутой…

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