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Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor Gardencourt, James’s luminous, superbly crafted prose creates an atmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparable beauty.

Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfill her potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and a brash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalid cousin, Ralph Touchett. But her vulnerability and innocence lead her not to love but to a fatal entrapment in intrigue, deception, and betrayal. This brilliant interior drama of the forming of a woman’s consciousness makes The Portrait of a Lady a masterpiece of James’s middle years.

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But now she neither taunted him with his fallacies nor pretended that her own confidence was justified; if she wore a mask, it completely covered her face. There was something fixed and mechanical in the serenity painted upon it; this was not an expression, Ralph said — it was a representation. She had lost her child; that was a sorrow, but it was a sorrow she scarcely spoken of; there was more to say about it than she could say to Ralph. It belonged to the past, moreover; it had occurred six months before, and she had already laid aside the tokens of mourning. She seemed to be leading a life of the world; Ralph heard her spoken of as having a “charming position.” He observed that she produced the impression of being peculiartly enviable, that it was supposed, among many people, to be a pr...

她错了，可她坚信她的错误；她被欺骗了，可她却令人悲哀地始终如一。她为吉尔伯特・奥斯蒙徳编织了一套美好的理论，她爱的并不是他的“所有”，而是他的“没有”所装扮出来的美德；这正是她的性格。

“一个未婚的女性——一个你这样年龄的女孩——是不会自由的。有各种各样的事她不能做，她的每一步都会受到限制。”

“问题在于她怎么看待自由，”伊莎贝尔充满感情地回答，“我已经不再年少——可以做我想做的事情——我属于独立自主的那一类人。我没有父亲也没有母亲；我不富有，性格严肃；我也不漂亮。所以，我不会胆怯，也不会拘泥于世俗；事实上我也承担不起这些奢侈。而且，我要靠我自己来判断一切；我想，即使判断错了，也比不做判断更加高贵。我不想只做羊群中的一只绵羊；我想选择我的命运，了解人们的生活，而不是只知道那些别人认为可以告诉我的事。”

“那你真是太不成熟了。等你活到我的年龄，就会看到，每个人都有他的外売，而你必须考虑一个人的外壳。所谓的外壳，我指的是个人整个的外部包装。没有什么独立的男人或女人，我们每个人都是由很多外部的附属物组成的。所谓的自我”到底是什么？它从那里开始？又到哪里结東？它遍及所有属于我们的东西一之后オ返回到自身。我知道，我的很大一部分自我在于我选择的衣服。我很尊物质！一个人的自我一一对别人来说一就是能够表达自我的那些东西；而他的房子、他的家具、他的衣服、他读的书、他交的朋友这些东西都是具有表达力的。”

对于友谊，就像对其他感情一样，她心目中也有一个理想。而现在的友谊，在她看来，也和过去的情况一样，似乎还没有完全体现她的理想。不过她经常提醒自己，理想是不能够完全实现的那是因为，理想是一种只能相信，不可目睹的东西一一是一种信念而不是经验。但是经验会为我们提供一些对理想的可靠的模仿品，而智慧的作用就是从中得到最大的收获。当然，总的来说，伊莎贝尔还从未遇见过比梅尔夫人更可爱、更有趣的人。友谊的一大障碍，就是不断地重复自身性格中那些令人厌倦、一成不变、别人早已熟悉的东西

“人们忘记我是一个病人的时候，我常常生气。但他们记得太清楚的时候，我更加不满。”

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Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor Gardencourt, James’s luminous, superbly crafted prose creates an atmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparable beauty.

Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfill her potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and a brash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalid cousin, Ralph Touchett. But her vulnerability and innocence lead her not to love but to a fatal entrapment in intrigue, deception, and betrayal. This brilliant interior drama of the forming of a woman’s consciousness makes The Portrait of a Lady a masterpiece of James’s middle years.