Kate Croy and Merton Densher, poor and secretly engaged, try to encourage the interest of Milly Theale, a fatally ill young heiress, in Merton.
A new edition of Henry James's classic novel featuring a new afterword.
Milly Theale, an American heiress in London, is young, hungry for life, and terminally ill. There she meets the dazzling beauty Kate Croy. Unbeknownst to Milly, Kate is madly in love with an old acquaintance of hers, Merton Densher, a young journalist who has everything a woman could wantexcept money.
Intensely aware of her new friend’s fate and coveting her fortune, Kate secretly spurs Merton to seduce and marry Milly. But their scheme to inherit her wealth does not go according to plan, and Kate and Merton learn that deceit alters love, and love, deceit.
With an Introduction by Brenda Wineapple
and a New Afterword
