Henry James | ISBN-10: 0141439637 | 2003 | English | MP3 (128 kb/s) | 248 Mb

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880.


The Portrait of a Lady was turned into a film in 1996 by New Zealand director Jane Campion, starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel, John Malkovich as Osmond, and Barbara Hershey as Madame Merle.

In 1968 the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) produced a television mini-series version of The Portrait of a Lady, starring Suzanne Neve as Isabel and Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett.

This production was originally broadcast in twenty episodes over four weeks on BBC Radio 4. This release is derived from the four weekly 'omnibus' broadcasts which contained five episodes each

Read by Miriam Margolyes.

About the Author:

Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York and eventually settling in England, wrote some twenty novels, many short stories, and a staggering number of letters. Geoffrey Moore was general editor for the works of Henry James in Penguin Classics. He died in 1999. Patricia Crick, one-time scholar of Girton College, Cambridge, is a teacher of modern languages.