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by Henry James
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The Wings of the Dove Summary
| She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. |
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| Milly Theale, an American heiress, travels to Europe and becomes involved with Kate Croy and Merton Densher, two lovers who concoct a treacherous design of betrayal and destruction to lure Milly out of her inheritance and personal connections and, finally, health. To gain her trust, Kate and Merton patronize her which is easy since Milly is naive and artless. Milly, however, is aware of a great potential for life because she knows she is doomed to die. The world captivates her and before her death she wants to make finer passions possible to give her a feeling of having lived. Milly also has a keen and singular implication of liberty: liberty of endeavor, of choice, of obligation, of association. Being in the company of Kate and Merton is like an immeasurable force of gravity inundating a near object and by so doing making immersion inescapable. Milly is unconsciously aware of the conspiring strategies against her but still joins the contrivances in order to cling to whatever elements of life she cherishes. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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| Milly Theale, an American heiress, travels to Europe and becomes involved with Kate Croy and Merton Densher, two lovers who concoct a treacherous design of betrayal and destruction to lure Milly out of her inheritance and personal connections and, finally, health. To gain her trust, Kate and Merton patronize her which is easy since Milly is naive and artless. Milly, however, is aware of a great potential for life because she knows she is doomed to die. The world captivates her and before her death she wants to make finer passions possible to give her a feeling of having lived. Milly also has a keen and singular implication of liberty: liberty of endeavor, of choice, of obligation, of association. Being in the company of Kate and Merton is like an immeasurable force of gravity inundating a near object and by so doing making immersion inescapable. Milly is unconsciously aware of the conspiring strategies against her but still joins the contrivances in order to cling to whatever elements of life she cherishes. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. |
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Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceit and betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about the frailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of need and desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these three characters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-lit piazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almost unprecedented in his work. Under its brilliant, coruscating surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, The Wings of the Dove offers an unfettered vision of our civilization and its discontents. It represents a culmination of James's art and, as such, of the art of the novel itself.
Jacket portrait by Katherine McClellan, courtesy of Culver Pictures |
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| Neither Edith Wharton nor E. M. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The Wings of the Dove 'perhaps the greatest of Henry James's novels.' Published in 1902, the novel represented something of a comeback for James, whose only 'bestseller,' Daisy Miller, had appeared more than two decades earlier. Set amid the splendor of fashionable London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, the story concerns a pair of lovers who conspire to obtain the fortune of a doomed American heiress. But the na?ve young woman becomes both their victim and their redeemer in James's meticulously designed drama of treachery and self-betrayal. 'It seems to me that I know the characters even more intimately than I know the characters in the earlier novels of his Balzac period,' said Louis Auchincloss. 'The Wings of the Dove represents the pinnacle of James's prose.' This version is the definitive New York Edition, which appeared in 1907, together with the author's Preface. |
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