The Golden Bowl
Maggie Verver, daughter of an American millionaire crating up Europe for a museum, marries a poor Roman prince who had loved her closest friend and given her up for money. When her father marries that friend, the four settle into an arrangement so comfortable nobody need say anything, until a flawed gilt bowl reaches Maggie, its history attached. James's last completed novel and his hardest, a book about what people decline to acknowledge.
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- takes its title from ↑ Ecclesiastes
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