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| | Amazon.com: The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Henry James,Virginia Llewellyn Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | The subject of "The Golden Bowl" is the reciprocal marriages of father and daughter, to a pair of former lovers. |
 | | There are at least two movie adaptations of James's "The Golden Bowl" that I'm aware of: a recent one (2000) with Nick Nolte and Uma Thurman (generally regarded as tiresome), and a colossally inept and nauseating BBC version from, I think, 1972. |
 | | In defense of this, I can only say that the elegance of the prose itself evokes the elegance of James's world, yet there is something sinister lurking underneath the prose; in the same way that, I submit, James is suggesting that something sinister is lurking under the superficialities of this high-hushed world. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192835424?v=glance (2732 words) |
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