Henry James considered The Portrait of a Lady his most perfect design, and it remains one of the supreme novels in English. Isabel Archer, a spirited young American, inherits a fortune she never sought and is thereby set free to choose her own life — and chooses, for the noblest of reasons and the worst of judgment, a marriage that closes around her like a trap. Among three suitors and an expatriate circle in Florence and Rome, her story unfolds with unmatched subtlety. This edition brings together the complete work — both volumes in one — newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates of the period, Sargent's portraits among them.
