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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:James, Henry

James, Henry
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Portrait Of A Lady (1881)

Introduction.

Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady is one of the great novels in
American literature. It ranks with such works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby
Dick, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the nineteenth century, and
with such works as An American Tragedy, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sound and
the Fury of the twentieth century. It is also considered one of the great
novels in the English language and is placed beside such accomplishments in
English literature as Tom Jones, Clarissa, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak ...

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