The Portrait of a Lady - The Original Classic Edition (Paperback)

from lauralkeet

The Portrait of a Lady is a story of Americans abroad, and a story of love and loss. Isabel Archer arrives in England with her aunt, Lydia Touchett, who is intent on broadening her horizons. Lydia is the mother of Isabel's cousin Ralph, who lives with his father on their English estate, Gardencou...

from BookAngel_a

The Portrait of a Lady is the story of an interesting woman, an attractive woman with many "theories". Isabel leaves America to travel to England with her aunt, rejecting an offer of marriage from a good and successful man. She arrives at the home of her uncle and cousin, Henry and Ralph Touchett...

from AliceAnna

A very slow read, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. The story builds very slowly, but in the interim, several characters are developed fully with psychology and motivations. As complex a character as Isabel (the lady) was, she was also one of the simplest to understand. Those in her orbit w...

from pre20cenbooks

This book got me to journaling again! I call it a psychological study of how narcissitic-like people can attract each other, marry and learn to live with it for the sake of appearances. I originally watched the old version on DVD. The production put enough in and left enough out to stimulate inte...

from JMlibrarian

Give the book its deserved five stars, but Isabel is boring. In fact, everybody in the book is boring except Ralph. Isabel and Ralph are the yin and yang of good and truth; Merle and Osmond the yin and yang of evil and deception. And who cares about little Pansy? She is simply the vapid cement bo...