An undisputed masterpiece, <em>The Portrait of a Lady</em> is arguably James's most popular work, and certainly the finest of his early novels. It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition includes helpful notes on the numerous changes James made between the first edition and the revised New York Edition, reproduced here, an up-to-date bibliography, and a new chronology.
