JAMES, H.: Portrait of a Lady (The) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

James, Henry, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

The Portrait of a Lady ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

His companion, measuring the length of the lawn... ( 08 min., 24 sec. )

'Well, I suppose it was his own,'... ( 09 min., 30 sec. )

Chapter 2 ( 07 min., 41 sec. )

'Before that,' said Miss Archer. ( 07 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 3 ( 11 min., 09 sec. )

It was in the 'office' still that Isabel was sitting... ( 11 min., 47 sec. )

Chapter 4 ( 10 min., 39 sec. )

Her father had a large way of looking at life... ( 08 min., 02 sec. )

Chapter 5 ( 12 min., 18 sec. )

Mrs. Touchett was prompt. ( 09 min., 59 sec. )

His mother had told him that he must satisfy his... ( 10 min., 23 sec. )

Chapter 6 ( 07 min., 22 sec. )

It was one of her theories that Isabel Archer... ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

'The books?' he once said; 'well, I don't know...' ( 07 min., 21 sec. )

Chapter 7 ( 10 min., 37 sec. )

These were nice questions, but Isabel's arrival... ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

The fortunate Lord Warburton exchanged... ( 06 min., 34 sec. )

Chapter 8 ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

In the afternoon she spent an hour... ( 08 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter 9 ( 07 min., 01 sec. )

When Lord Warburton showed her the house... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

Chapter 10 ( 09 min., 38 sec. )

Miss Stackpole showed every disposition to wait... ( 09 min., 33 sec. )

'I seldom spend it so agreeably.' ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

'I've not conceived a passion for your friend,'... ( 05 min., 42 sec. )

Chapter 11 ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

'It was a pleasure to me, and I liked the way...' ( 09 min., 14 sec. )

Chapter 12 ( 09 min., 48 sec. )

'One's right in such a matter is not measured...' ( 09 min., 42 sec. )

'I remember his making the remark.' ( 10 min., 33 sec. )

Chapter 13 ( 10 min., 37 sec. )

He was the son of a proprietor of well-known... ( 07 min., 35 sec. )

While the author of this missive... ( 06 min., 31 sec. )

Ralph was much puzzled by this appeal... ( 07 min., 45 sec. )

These last words of Miss Stackpole's... ( 07 min., 26 sec. )

Chapter 14 ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

'It was the only way, Lord Warburton,' said the girl. ( 07 min., 47 sec. )

Lord Warburton's sister addressed him... ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter 15 ( 10 min., 44 sec. )

The incident that had preceded Isabel's departure... ( 08 min., 46 sec. )

Mr. Bantling promised to do his best... ( 07 min., 47 sec. )

'I don't believe he has any now,' said the girl. ( 07 min., 49 sec. )

To this she made no direct reply... ( 04 min., 16 sec. )

Chapter 16 ( 07 min., 50 sec. )

'I disgust you very much,' said Caspar... ( 09 min., 34 sec. )

He might be pardoned if for an instant... ( 07 min., 26 sec. )

This attitude was part of a system, a theory... ( 07 min., 20 sec. )

Chapter 17 ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

Isabel learned from her the next morning... ( 09 min., 54 sec. )

Chapter 18 ( 10 min., 30 sec. )

Madame Merle glanced at Isabel... ( 10 min., 08 sec. )

'No, my boy,' said Mr. Touchett... ( 07 min., 30 sec. )

Ralph had foreseen what his father... ( 08 min., 18 sec. )

'Isabel's poor then. My mother tells me that she...' ( 09 min., 41 sec. )

Chapter 19 ( 11 min., 21 sec. )

I may not count over all the links in the chain... ( 11 min. )

'If I didn't already like her very much...' ( 08 min., 09 sec. )

'However, you know him better than I, though...' ( 08 min., 44 sec. )

Madame Merle took a sheet of music... ( 10 min., 05 sec. )

By way of answer Isabel kissed her... ( 07 min., 33 sec. )

Chapter 20 ( 10 min., 09 sec. )

Mrs. Touchett had no purpose of awaiting... ( 12 min., 46 sec. )

He took a great interest in Isabel... ( 12 min., 52 sec. )

Chapter 21 ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

She looked at him as if she had not heard him... ( 08 min., 12 sec. )

Chapter 22 ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

The child turned her head earnestly to one side... ( 05 min., 27 sec. )

He watched the lady from the convent... ( 09 min., 54 sec. )

The child fixed him an instant... ( 07 min., 57 sec. )

'Exactly; but yourself includes so many other...' ( 07 min., 51 sec. )

In the manner and tone of these two persons... ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

Chapter 23 ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

A rebuke might possibly have been irritating... ( 13 min., 03 sec. )

Chapter 24 ( 09 min., 21 sec. )

'You'll be tired when you go home...' ( 07 min., 28 sec. )

While Isabel's host exerted himself to entertain... ( 11 min., 59 sec. )

There were two other rooms, beyond the one... ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

Chapter 25 ( 07 min., 48 sec. )

Pansy reflected a moment, turning gravely... ( 08 min., 17 sec. )

Chapter 26 ( 11 min., 12 sec. )

All this went on quite over Isabel's head... ( 08 min., 33 sec. )

Had not Mr. Osmond remarked that...? ( 08 min., 27 sec. )

Mr. Bantling was to go with her to Rome... ( 09 min., 18 sec. )

Chapter 27 ( 10 min., 08 sec. )

At last there was a silence... ( 11 min., 16 sec. )

In the church, as she strolled over its tessellated... ( 08 min., 27 sec. )

Volume 2: Chapter 28 ( 08 min., 55 sec. )

Isabel considered him with interest. ( 08 min., 22 sec. )

Chapter 29 ( 11 min., 36 sec. )

Isabel was not struck with the oddity... ( 13 min., 28 sec. )

Chapter 30 ( 03 min., 58 sec. )

As Isabel drove, in the publicity of an open... ( 11 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 31 ( 08 min., 03 sec. )

Our young lady's courage, however... ( 11 min., 32 sec. )

Chapter 32 ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

'Is it a marriage your friends won't like?' ( 10 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 33 ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

Two days afterward Ralph arrived... ( 08 min., 08 sec. )

Chapter 34 ( 07 min., 52 sec. )

She raised her eyes and gave him a wide... ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

At these words a sudden passion... ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

Chapter 35 ( 11 min., 40 sec. )

He brought Pansy with him two or three times... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

Chapter 36 ( 12 min., 40 sec. )

'I esteem a dot very much. I can do without it...' ( 11 min., 30 sec. )

Chapter 37 ( 09 min., 20 sec. )

This was enough for Edward Rosier... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

The other rooms meanwhile had become... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

Chapter 38 ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

'I remember that myself,' said Osmond. ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

Isabel had many questions to ask about Ralph... ( 09 min., 47 sec. )

Chapter 39 ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

Ralph, as I say, had wished to see for himself... ( 08 min., 21 sec. )

For Gilbert Osmond Ralph had not now that... ( 08 min., 12 sec. )

These two were gentlemen of a race which is not... ( 07 min., 29 sec. )

Chapter 40 ( 09 min., 59 sec. )

Madame Merle, in fact, had come back before... ( 09 min., 13 sec. )

On the day I speak of they had been driven out... ( 08 min., 52 sec. )

It's easy to displease you. Don't you see how wise... ( 08 min., 58 sec. )

Chapter 41 ( 08 min., 20 sec. )

It was surprising for a variety of reasons... ( 07 min., 02 sec. )

'Yes; but a lover outside's always a lover.' ( 07 min., 09 sec. )

Chapter 42 ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

Ah, she had been immensely under the charm! ( 08 min., 54 sec. )

She could live it over again, the incredulous... ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

She was morally certain now that this feeling... ( 07 min., 45 sec. )

Chapter 43 ( 11 min., 38 sec. )

Isabel turned away; Pansy was about to be... ( 10 min., 04 sec. )

'Sixteen hundred pounds? Ah, but that's very...' ( 08 min., 30 sec. )

Chapter 44 ( 11 min., 28 sec. )

The Countess threw herself hastily backward... ( 09 min., 14 sec. )

Henrietta got up; these seemed to her, naturally... ( 07 min., 55 sec. )

Caspar Goodwood frowned a little... ( 08 min., 56 sec. )

Chapter 45 ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

'It will come from him, rather. I seem to see that...' ( 10 min., 29 sec. )

'I advise you then to pay the greatest respect...' ( 10 min., 22 sec. )

Chapter 46 ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

If there was anything awkward in the conditions... ( 09 min., 19 sec. )

When he had left the room she expected... ( 10 min., 01 sec. )

Chapter 47 ( 08 min., 07 sec. )

Henrietta Stackpole, it may well be imagined... ( 08 min., 32 sec. )

'You're certainly not fortunate in your intimates...' ( 08 min., 04 sec. )

Caspar Goodwood came at last to Palazzo... ( 11 min., 13 sec. )

Chapter 48 ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

'I can't do that. I shall never make another...' ( 11 min. )

'I have said that Osmond was in good humour...' ( 10 minutes, 45 sec.

)

Goodwood had meant to go away early... ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

Chapter 49 ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

Madame Merle had proceeded very deliberately... ( 10 minutes, 08 sec.

Her compassion would perhaps have been... ( 07 min., 11 sec. )

Madame Merle's self-possession tended on... ( 07 min., 29 sec. )

Chapter 50 ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

About a week after this lady's quick sympathies... ( 10 min., 48 sec. )

Chapter 51 ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

He spoke gravely and almost gently... ( 08 min., 21 sec. )

Isabel went to her room, where she walked... ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

She spoke as one troubled and puzzled... ( 06 min., 32 sec. )

'I don't call Madame Merle a success, you know.' ( 08 min., 06 sec. )

Chapter 52 ( 09 min., 49 sec. )

Isabel saw it all as distinctly as if it had been... ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

Isabel said nothing for a minute; her heart beat... ( 10 min., 08 sec. )

Chapter 53 ( 11 min., 17 sec. )

Even in the crowded, noisy station... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

Chapter 54 ( 10 min., 40 sec. )

Mrs. Touchett was silent; then she gave a sharp... ( 08 min., 26 sec. )

'I was not waiting for your death; I was waiting...' ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

Chapter 55 ( 09 min., 39 sec. )

'Some of them are extremely peculiar,' ( 07 min., 48 sec. )

There was an interrogation in this... ( 07 min., 34 sec. )

She couldn't have told you whether it was... ( 08 min., 21 sec. )

Isabel gave a long murmur, like a creature in pain... ( 05 minutes, 51 sec. )

Participant:

Stevenson, Juliet, Reader -- James, Henry, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781843799559

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.