Bücher von Mario Fontenla

The Portrait of a Lady is considered a masterpiece by critics and fans alike. Set primarily in England and Italy, the novel features a young American woman named Isabel Archer, who's just inherited a chunk of cash. Though she is escorted by her protective cousin Ralph and her confidante Henrietta Stackpole, Isabel falls into the scheme of two American expats, Madame Merle and Gilbert Osmond. Once they're on the scene, charming upper crust manners give way to Machiavellian plotting. Like much of James's work, Portrait of a Lady is long, complex and deep, but it's a masterfully crafted tale well told. James guides the reader through the psychological depths of Isabel's deteriorating mental landscape as she falls victim to greedy conspirators. He brilliantly illustrates Isabel's journey through the deteriorating architecture of Rome as a mirror to her own dwindling passions - a James-as-usual naive American in Europe device which brilliantly juxtaposes Old World and New.

Questo libro ha nato per la mia empatia di aiutare all'altri dopo avere cominciato a volontaliare alla Croce Rossa dove ho cominciato la mia intiera carriera come interprete e tradutore quasi dieci hanni fa e ho stato incoraggiato a scrivere poeme per il mio patrone e carissimo Fred Leahy e il mio amico del cuore e poeta Athony Deriggs.

This book was written with the idea of teaching the next generation to love, be empathetic of others who are suffering, not follow the same revanchism that my generation has always ready to retaliate at every criticism but, instead, learn to care for each other and the planet we are living in because it is the only one we've got.