An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that
The Chaperon
โ Scribed by Henry James
- Book ID
- 110777284
- Publisher
- Duke Classics
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 37 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781634211925
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โฆ Synopsis
Rose Tramore, the quietly persistent young woman at the center of Henry James' novella The Chaperon , is every bit as memorable a literary creation as James' Daisy Miller, though she is that character's opposite in many ways. In the aftermath of her mother's bitter divorce, Rose helps her shattered family pick up the pieces and carry on.
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