The golden bowl

Record details

ISBN: 1781981329
ISBN: 9781781981320
Physical Description: 22 audio discs (25 hr., 6 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [Franklin, Tenn.] : Naxos Audiobooks, [2018]

General Note:	Compact discs.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Juliet Stevenson.
Summary, etc.:	Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except for a husband, and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the states, Maggies millionaire father Adam decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie. Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled, but now poor, aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the perfect candidate. Delighted, Maggie then reciprocates by choosing a partner for her widower father: childhood friend Charlotte Stant. The stage is set, and what unfolds is a deep and gripping exploration of fidelity and the politics of love and marriage. Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl displays Henry James at his finest: James weaves scene upon scene, set piece upon set piece, into a seamless whole, through a richly dense tapestry of beautiful, flowing prose. Along with The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove, it constitutes Jamess final, and most rewarding, phase as a novelist.