IN HIS latest novel, John Banville picks up where Henry James left off at the close of The Portrait of a Lady (1881). James’s story concluded with the young American heroine, Isabel Archer, realising that Gilbert Osmond had only married her for her money. Readers were left with an ambiguous ending. Would Isabel return to… Read more »
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