Lord Theign of Dedborough needs money, and the American collector Breckenridge Bender has come to buy the treasures off his walls. When a young critic, Hugh Crimble, suspects that one of Theign’s paintings is a lost masterpiece, he and Lady Grace start a public fight over whether England should let its art be sold abroad.
Henry James’s last completed novel, adapted from his own play, a light comedy about money, art and national pride. Download the free EPUB.