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        The Golden Bowl


        setting

        England

        time

        Late 1800s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1904

        page count

        669

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Amerigo, Charlotte, Maggie, Fanny Assingham, Mr. Verver

        Rip's impressions

        Difficult to sustain this length––definitely a skipping candidate––so don’t expect to enjoy too much until second read.

        first line

        The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Thames a more convincing image of the truth of the ancient state than any they have left by the Tiber.

        last lines

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