The Golden Bowl — Volume 2

by Henry James

"The Golden Bowl — Volume 2" by Henry James is a novel published in 1904. This intricate study of marriage and adultery follows the tangled relationships between wealthy American art collector Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, and their spouses—Charlotte and Prince Amerigo. When Maggie discovers that her husband and her father's wife share a secret past, she launches a delicate campaign to separate them without revealing what she knows. James's dense, complex prose explores consciousness and deception with claustrophobic intensity in this final masterwork of his career.