JAMES, H.: Portrait of a Lady (The) (Abridged)

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Naxos AudioBooks
Release Date
April 1, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      JAMES, HENRY
    • PERFORMER
      Read By Elizabeth Mcgovern
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 01, 2006
    • UPC
      9789626343760
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NA437612
    • LABEL
      Naxos AudioBooks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Classic Fiction
    Works ⌄

    1. Afternoon tea at Gardencourt

    2. Mrs Touchett's niece

    3. ‘An interesting woman’

    4. Isabel’s new friends

    5. Lord Warburton

    6. An invitation to Lockleigh

    7. Henrietta glimpses England

    8. A letter from Caspar Goodwood

    9. Lord Warburton declares himself

    10. Isabel's answer

    11. Isabel and Henrietta in London

    12. Caspar Goodwood dismissed

    13. Madame Merle introduces herself; Ralph reveals his plan

    14. Isabel's bequest

    15. ‘I want you, of course, to marry her’

    16. Madame Merle’s friend

    17. A visit to Rome

    18. A visit to Rome (cont.)

    19. ‘You’re going to marry that man’

    20. Mr Rosier's proposal

    21. A second suitor for Pansy

    22. Gilbert Osmond disappointed

    23. Gilbert Osmond disappointed (cont.)

    24. Caspar, Ralph and Henrietta go home; Madame Merle's interest

    25. The Contessa speaks out

    26. Madame Merle makes a guess; Isabel loses a brother

    27. ‘A very straight path’


Maggie Tulliver has two lovers Philip Wakem, son of her father's enemy, and Stephen Guest, already promised to her cousin. But the love she wants most in the world is that of her brother Tom. Maggie's struggle against her passionate and sensual nature leads her to a deeper understanding and to eventual tragedy.