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        The Wings Of The Dove


        setting

        Paris, France

        time

        Late 1800s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1902

        page count

        454

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Kate Croy, Merton Densher, Millie Theale, Mrs. Lowder, Susan Stringham

        Rip's impressions

        A love triangle, trips to Venice, and many Jamesian themes repeated here in his beautiful, elegant, though often tiresome, style.

        first line

        She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him.

        last lines

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