
The Golden Bowl
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Narrated by:
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Juliet Stevenson
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By:
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Henry James
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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Top notch narration
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Sublime
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Juliet Stephenson is to the audiobook what Shakespeare is to verse...synonymous with acme.
If you don't love this book, it's your fault
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The best!
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Perfect reading, incomparable novel
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Tension, suspense !
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Why use one word when 50 will do
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Don’t waste your valuable time!
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I sincerely don't understand James' acclaim. In none of the three books have I encountered one character worthy of my attention, sympathy or adoration. Perhaps it's because all of James' characters are the idle rich sitting around in drawing rooms excruciatingly over-analyzing every word and facial expression as if life and death depended on it. The army of servants, butlers, cooks and footmen who make their idle self indulgence possible aren't any more significant than the potted plants and wallpaper that adorn these much too sumptuous rooms and terraces where these empty lives play out.
Every writer has crutches but James never misses an opportunity for one of his characters to "hang fire" or offer a youthful or American cliche as if explaining the phrase to a conference room full of anthropologists. Being British American of a luminous family no doubt gave James countless hours in such drawing rooms and, perhaps to these turn of the century narcissists and the people who fantasize being of the gilded set, his books offer delicious indulgence.
Too me, they're just terribly boring.
The Golden Bore
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Endless Talk
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