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A review by kacyrene
The Portrait of a Lady [Volume 1] by Henry James
3.0
Basically I am logging these books as 2, rather than one because long novels SHOULD count as 2 books for the yearly reading challenge. I love long and beastly books.
So far Portrait of a Lady is shaping up to be just "meh" period literature. Fortunately I have a fondness for 19th century novels. I don't know how this will end, but I'm sensing that this will end up looking a lot like a Far From the Madding Crowd situation. Isabel will fall for Osmond who turns out to be something of a con artist. He will be her downfall, and she'll realize that a good man was waiting for her the whole time in Lord Warburton or her cousin Ralph. (Those English folk did like marrying their cousins.) I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised by a different outcome, as I continue to volume 2.
So far Portrait of a Lady is shaping up to be just "meh" period literature. Fortunately I have a fondness for 19th century novels. I don't know how this will end, but I'm sensing that this will end up looking a lot like a Far From the Madding Crowd situation. Isabel will fall for Osmond who turns out to be something of a con artist. He will be her downfall, and she'll realize that a good man was waiting for her the whole time in Lord Warburton or her cousin Ralph. (Those English folk did like marrying their cousins.) I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised by a different outcome, as I continue to volume 2.