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Originally Posted by issybird
Not surprisingly, I think my nomination, The Golden Bowl, surpasses the others, especially for the quality of its prose. I think the story has more heft than the other Jamesian nomination, The Wings of the Dove.
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Originally Posted by sun surfer
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a marvellous and beautiful book that I love. However, it is not an easy one, even by James standards. It is one of his longest novels and perhaps even the longest, it is dense and subtle, oblique and evasive, it features some unusually nefarious main characters for James as well as fragility and innocence attacked, and it is heartbreaking. It is one of his late-period masterpieces and some say one of his best and perhaps even the best.
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I got 50 pages into The Golden Bowl and then 30 pages into The Wings of the Dove. I really don't like the way James tells us (in great detail) what his characters are like, and I also don't like his prose style of long elaborate sentences. Not for me at all.
So, I've now read 12 of the 19. Enough. There are more decades to catch up on! Time for me to vote, and yes, I'm sticking with my nomination,
Kim. Anne of Green Gables is close, but for me it doesn't have the taste of the exotic or the excitement that
Kim has.