Wings of the Dove

✍ Scribed by James, Henry

• Book ID: 109072261
• Publisher: Barnes&Noble
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 393 KB
• Series: Barnes & Noble Classics 27
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781593082963

✦ Synopsis

One of three masterpieces from Henry James�s final, �major� phase, The Wings of the Dove dramatizes the conflict between nineteenth-century values and twentieth-century passions. Born to wealth and privilege, Kate Croy�s mother threw it all away to marry a penniless opium addict. After her mother�s death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the opulent lifestyle her mother gave up�on one condition. Kate must renounce the man she loves: the witty, good-looking, but poor, Merton Densher. Reluctantly agreeing, Kate finds herself becoming friends with �the world�s richest orphan,� Millie Theale. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she devises a plan of dizzying possibility for herself and Merton that should solve all their problems, but instead leads them down a path strewn with tragic, unexpected consequences.

First published in 1902, this rich and intriguing novel has lost none of its fascination and relevance a century later.