The Golden Bowl Av Henry James

<p>Henry James''s highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, <i>The Golden Bowl</i> is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.<br><br>Maggie 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.<br><br>This edition of <i>The Golden Bowl </i>contains a chronology, suggested further reading, a glossary, notes and an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazall discussing James''s original conception o