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Now showing — Portrait of a Lady on Fire · 5 works
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A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding...
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The Portrait of a Lady is a 1881 book by Henry James, linked to England and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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A dying bureaucrat searches for meaning. One of cinema's most profound portraits of mortality.
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A man joins the fascist secret police to feel normal. Political compromise as psychological portrait.
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Violence, poverty, and Māori displacement in South Auckland. A brutal domestic portrait that became a national reckoning.
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Also in the field · 3
- The Years Books
- The Portrait of a Lady Books
- Portrait in Jazz Music
- Under Lion Rock Music
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
- The Year of Magical Thinking Essays