An incisive introduction by Brenda Wineapple complements James's classic novel of romantic suspense, about a young couple, Kate Croy and her lover, journalist Merton Densher, who plan to extort money from a naive and trusting American heiress who is terminally ill. Reissue.[...]
A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston.
Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel [...]