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The Golden Bowl
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 25 hrs and 6 mins
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Summary
Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except a husband and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the States, Maggie’s millionaire father, Adam, decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie.
Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled but now poor aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the perfect candidate. Delighted, Maggie then reciprocates by choosing a partner for her widower father: childhood friend Charlotte Stant. The stage is set, and what unfolds is a deep and gripping exploration of fidelity and the politics of love and marriage.
Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl displays Henry James at his finest: James weaves scene upon scene, set piece upon set piece, into a seamless whole, through a richly dense tapestry of beautiful, flowing prose. Along with The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove, it constitutes James’ final and most rewarding phase as a novelist.
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- Nicky Coombes
- 08-03-22
Difficult
Struggled with the verbosity and style, often having to repeat chapters to fully understand them. It'll be my last Henry James.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-11-23
Fantastic text and great story
The story and the richness of the language. Enjoyed the text and the subtle way Henry James tells the story.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-03-19
outstanding
Juliet Stevenson read this perfectly. She has a fine understanding of James and maintained her fresh perceptiveness throughout .
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- J T Harrison
- 21-07-22
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- richard2
- 30-09-22
Great for insomniacs
Possibly one of the most boring books ever - really effective if you are trying to go to sleep. Very well read but nonetheless ……. yawn.
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- J N.
- 08-11-23
Hard Work
This is hard work to listen to . Kept having to rewind to understand what was happening. in the end I gave up. The narrator was very good but the writing was too verbose which is not needed for what is essentially a love story. I wish I'd saved my credit!
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- Baggins111
- 05-11-18
Highly overrated ...
Don’t bother unless you already know and really love HJ (and have your downloaded guidance notes at the ready?!)
Bland characters talking a lot of self-indulgent nonsense in long flowery prose; why say it in ten words when you can say it in a ten thousand... Well you get the gist? And so it rambled on and on and on...
Juliet Stevenson has a lovely voice for narration, but even she can’t make a silk purse out of this sows ear... but she did send me to sleep! Needless to say, I didn’t finish this book, it’s really not for me, and it’s not going to be liked by lots of other avid readers/audio-listeners either...
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