Highly acclaimed as one of the year's most outstanding movies,THE WINGS OF THE DOVE is a provocative tale of passion,temptation,and greed.Helena Bonham Carter (HOWARDS END) delivers a stunning,award-winning performance as Kate,a beautiful young society woman whose desire for a common journalist (Linus Roache) presents her with an impossible decision: leave him,or marry--and face a life of poverty.Events take an unexpected twist,however,when Kate befriends a lonely young heiress (Alison Elliott) whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible ...but dangerous ...solution.Nominated for 4 Academy Awards?,this intriguing story of forbidden love is a motion picture event you won't soon forget!

The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909),together with James's preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove.The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel's textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel,both in 1902 and in 1909.

"The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition,includes selections from James's notebooks,letters,travel books,and autobiographical writings,which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove.

"Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978.Eleven essays are included,seven of them new to the Second Edition,including Anthony J.Mazzella's piece on film adaptation.

Preface

The Text of The Wings of the Dove:

 Preface to the New York Edition (1909):

Frontispiece to Volume I: The Doctor’s Door

MAP: London in 1909

Detail of London in 1909

 The Wings of the Dove:

Frontispiece to Volume II: The Venetian Palace

MAP: Venice in 1909

Detail of Venice in 1909

 Textual Appendix

Notes on the Text

Textual Variants

The Author on the Novel

 Editors’Critical Commentary

 Henry James·From His Notebooks

 Henry James·From His Letters:

To William Dean Howells ( September 12, 1902)

To Mrs.Cadwalader Jones (October 23, 1902)

To H.G.Wells (November 15, 1902)

To William Dean Howells (December 11, 1902)

To Mrs.G.W.Prothero (September 14, 1913)

To Mrs.William James (March 29, 1914)

To Mrs.Richard W.Gilder (September 2, 1914)

From William James (Fall 1902)

To William James (Fall 1902)

 Henry James·From His Preface to The Ambassadors

 Henry James·From Italian Hours:

[St.Mark’s]

[The Venetian People]

[Relation of Art to Life in Venice]

[The Vast mausoleum with a Turnstile at the Door]

[The Resident Palaces of Venice]

[The Poetry of Misfortune]

[Three Venetian Sisters]

 Henry James·From Notes of a Son and Brother:

[The Character of Minnie Temple]

[Memories of Cultural Innocence]

[Minnie as Heroine]

[The Death of Minnie Temple]

 Henry James·From Is There a Life After Death?

Criticism

 William Dean Howells·Mr.Henry James’s Later Work

 R.P.Blackmur·[Dramas of the Soul in Action]

 Christof Wegelin·The Lesson of Spiritual Beauty

 Laurence B.Holland·From The Expense of Vision

 Sheila Teahan·The Abyss of Language in The Wings of the Dove

 Julie Olin-Ammentorp·"A Circle of Petticoats": The Feminization of Merton Densher

 Jonathan Freedman·Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture

 Gary Kuchar·Henry James and the Phenomenal Reader: Consciousness and the Variation of Style in The Wings of the Dove

 Richard Alleva·Henry James Made Carnal: Wings of the Dove

 Anthony J.Mazzella·"This web of subtle complexities": The Hossein Amini-Iain Softley Film Adaptation of The Wings of the Dove

 James Thurber·The Wings of Henry James

 Henry James: A Chronology

 Selected Bibliography