This is a wonderful book.
I expected to find it hard work (it was at times) but as a chronicle of American naivety, Puritanism and I guess a degree of self-sacrificing goodness in Gwendolyn (quite different from, although with some similarities to Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch) versus old European corruption, art, cynicism, and civilisation is pretty good.
My reservation was that I couldn't understand what Gwendolyn ever saw in the man she married.
Must read some more James, but maybe on holiday only!
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