The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this
complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have
called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle
of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective
spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of
the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful
insight. The title is a quotation from Ecclesiastes 12:6, "... or the golden
bowl be broken, ... then shall the dust return to the earth as it was".

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