内容简介
With amazing vividness,Nina Foch essays Henry James's earliest(1881)and perhaps most accessible masterpiece.A penniless American girl is brought to Europe where her beauty,ingenuousness,and naïveté attract a variety of suitors.In spite of wanting to do everything right,everything comes out wrong in this perceptive,subtle,and multilayered psychological novel,which Foch plays like a musical instrument.A rather loud one——she hits all the notes correctly but coarsely.The effect is like a bordello pianist--albeit one with nimble fingers--playing Chopin on an old upright.A maladroit abridgment causes occasional confusion.