oldwinenewwineskins 's review for:

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
3.75
adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Exquisite writing, it flows beautifully. However, the story went on and on and on giving every minutest detail. I feel that James could have wrapped this up in 200 pages. It needed not to have been that long.