The Golden Bowl (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*London. Great Britain’s capital is the home of most of the novel’s main characters. Most of its scenes are set within the homes of Adam and Charlotte Verver, Prince Amerigo and Maggie, and, less frequently, their friends Bob and Fanny Assingham. James provides little description of these interior spaces, but instead focuses almost exclusively on the contents of the characters’ thoughts. As is typical of James’s later novels, the characters do not voice their most important thoughts and learn, not from hearing, but from seeing one another. Long passages...

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