![]() ![]() It was the basis for the 1997 film directed by Iain Softley and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, and Alison Elliott. The Wings of the Dove later became the inspiration for the opera of the same title by Douglas Moore in 1961. "In his last three novels, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl, he returned to the 'international' theme of the contrast of American and European character" (Drabble, 503). A sharp example.Ĭonsidered one of Henry James' greatest novels of character portrayal, which details the days of "the vivid and magnificent yet corrupt Kate Croy… trapped, forced, held down by her social circumstances" (Barbara Everett, Times Literary Supplement, 2005). ![]() Octavo, original cloth, two volumes, gilt topstain. $500.00 Item Number: 139208įirst American edition, and true first, preceding the English edition of James’ classic novel. ![]()
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