Golden bowl. James G.

MEGGI VERVER, the daughter of the American millionaire Adam Verver, a collector and a subtle connoisseur of artistic values, marries Prince America - a young Italian from an impoverished aristocratic family. Meggi is in love and happy, but she is disturbed by the idea that her long -widowed father, passionate about the improvement of his collection, will be left completely alone. On the eve of the wedding, Meggi introduces his father to a longtime friend - a charming American Charlotte Stait, believing that the society of a young person would benefit him. Meggi does not realize that, letting a seductive woman into the house, risks being devoted and deceived. Henry James (1843-1916), recognized classic of American literature, a master of psychological prose, describes the complex relationships of two pairs related to the whim of fate by the bonds of love, and answers the eternal question: wealth is the gift of fate or curse?..