The Portrait of a Lady

Just read it again. The Penguin Popular Classics text is different from the Penguin Classics test. I'm guessing the second is the later one, as the writing seems more precise - mostly the changes are at the end, in the last part of the book. I think James ratcheted up the tension in the second one - and made the ending more clear.

I wish the film people had given the film a proper ending instead of that awful cop-out. She goes back to Rome. There's no power and no meaning if Isabel doesn't go back to Rome. Her real life will start then. All the rest has only been a prelude.