Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beatuy, intelliğence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life, An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with Ja mes' inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance.
'The phase when his genius functioned with the freest and fullest vitality is represented by The Fortrait of a Lady