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The Portrait of a Lady
Nov 6, 2025 11:22 PM

Author:Henry James,Philip Horne,Simon Harrison

The Portrait of a Lady

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Simon Harrison, best known for his roles in Everest, Transformers: The Last Knight and London Has Fallen. This definitive edition includes an Introduction by Philip Horne.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy.

(P) 2019 Penguin Audio

Reviews

Sarah Schulman is a brilliant visionary, and this is a book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago

—— Olivia Laing

A scathing and darkly hilarious apocalypse-now

—— The Nation

Strong, nervy and challenging

—— The New York Times

Startlingly powerful

—— Dorothy Allison

A witty, angry and anguished novel

—— Publishers Weekly

The questions that the novel stages about action, complicity, and discomfort are evergreen, but they resonate with particular force for any American trying to figure out their relationship to Trump and Trumpism now

—— Peter C. Baker , The New Yorker

This is the first work of fiction I've read about AIDS that portrays the enormous activist response the epidemic has generated...Schulman's people are fighters...terrifically inspiring examples of the human spirit's passion for revival

—— David Leavitt

This emotional book won't make the walls of repression crumble, but it might make you understand this painful, hopeful moment better

—— The Village Voice

Redemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous

—— TLS

Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone

—— Sunday Herald

Ta-Nehisi Coates has emerged as an important public intellectual and perhaps America's most incisive thinker about race.

—— New York Times

Slavery, forgetting and memory are at the heart of Coates's ambitious, compelling first novel...

—— TLS

A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale

—— Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times

High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting

—— The Times
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