Author(s): James, Henry
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA0267
Barcode: 9781781980484
Release Date: 01/2017

JAMES, H.: Wings of the Dove (The) (Unabridged)

Milly Theale is a young, beautiful and fabulously wealthy American. When she arrives in London and meets the equally beautiful but impoverished Kate Croy, they form an intimate friendship. But nothing is as it seems: materialism, romance, self-delusion and ultimately fatal illness insidiously contaminate the glamorous social whirl.

Tracklist

Disc 1
James, Henry - Author
Stevenson, Juliet (Reader)
1 The Wings of the Dove 11:13
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2 Life had met him so… 11:38
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3 'I should have thought you might perhaps guess.' 11:45
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4 She looked about her and picked up her parasol. 11:41
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5 Chapter 2 12:11
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6 It wasn't in truth, however… 11:07
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Disc 2
1 It was after the children's dinner… 08:30
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2 'Your ideas are the more striking,' Kate returned… 08:50
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3 Book Second 12:32
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4 They had found themselves regarding… 11:19
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5 Kate took one of her walks with Densher… 12:03
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6 'The tune,' she exclaimed… 10:02
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7 Densher took this in with marked but generous… 10:33
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Disc 3
1 Chapter 2 10:16
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2 He recognized at the end of ten minutes… 10:00
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3 He afterwards felt that if she hadn't absolutely… 10:24
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4 He had given her indeed, she made no scruple… 10:27
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5 The beauty was in everything… 10:49
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6 Book Third 11:34
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Disc 4
1 For the figure to which these questions… 12:16
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2 She had arts and idiosyncrasies… 11:54
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3 Her young friend had in a sublime degree… 11:33
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4 Chapter 2 10:18
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5 Milly had for the third time her air… 11:00
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6 She presently put it that, at any rate… 08:13
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Disc 5
1 Book Fourth 11:05
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2 He threw out the question, which seemed large… 11:52
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3 Milly followed this… 10:32
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4 She neglected his question for a little… 11:10
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5 Chapter 2 13:51
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6 It was meanwhile a pretty part… 13:31
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Disc 6
1 These were fine facilities… 04:43
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2 Chapter 3 10:14
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3 It would have taken but another free moment… 10:29
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4 'She wished me, if I cared for Kate, to know,'… 10:03
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5 Milly looked at her as if she were almost… 10:22
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6 Book Fifth 20:15
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7 Chapter 2 05:46
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Disc 7
1 It was all the while for Milly… 10:50
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2 Thus it was that, aloft there in the great gilded… 08:55
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3 Chapter 3 11:16
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4 It was exactly as if, in the forty-eight hours… 12:02
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5 It put forward the bold idea… 10:40
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6 Chapter 4 14:34
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Disc 8
1 Milly had her rent to pay… 13:44
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2 Chapter 5 12:12
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3 For Mrs. Lowder also moreover… 12:49
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4 Chapter 6 08:54
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5 The odd thing furthermore… 09:12
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6 Really at last, thus, it had been too much… 08:55
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Disc 9
1 Chapter 7 11:04
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2 This was a gentleman in the middle of the place… 08:19
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3 The help was fairly rendered before they left… 12:36
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4 Book Sixth 12:27
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5 It would have been open to her, no doubt… 13:12
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Disc 10
1 Chapter 2 10:37
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2 He had really at this to make out a little… 10:04
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3 Kate so possessed her facts, as it were… 09:58
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4 Chapter 3 09:46
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5 The drama, at all events… 11:17
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6 He asked nothing better. 10:38
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Disc 11
1 Chapter 4 11:14
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2 'I want,' said the girl… 11:11
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3 She went with him a few steps… 09:41
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4 'Then how could she suppose you weren't…?' 12:30
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5 Chapter 5 08:59
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6 The question the girl had quickly disposed of… 09:49
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7 At the same time, while many things in quick… 08:53
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Disc 12
1 'Ah then you will return?' 12:54
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2 Thus ingeniously discriminating… 12:57
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3 Book Seventh 11:14
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4 Milly thought. 11:44
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5 'I asked nothing,' said poor Susie… 11:43
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6 Susie faced this new duty. 11:04
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Disc 13
1 Chapter 2 11:13
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2 The only obstacle to reciprocity with him… 10:39
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3 Chapter 3 09:49
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4 Mrs. Lowder's success and Kate's… 09:58
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5 She was out of it at present, for some reason… 11:29
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6 Chapter 4 08:16
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7 If he could only be touched enough… 07:49
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Disc 14
1 'What is it you want to know?' 09:27
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2 By this time she had turned from their window… 09:16
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3 Well, he showed how beautifully he could take it… 10:30
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4 Book Eighth 11:23
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5 It was thanks to her pure talent for life… 10:08
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6 That came up in all connexions… 10:50
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Disc 15
1 Chapter 2 10:10
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2 She wished not to have spoiled his morning… 09:49
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3 There were moments again… 10:56
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4 Chapter 3 10:56
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5 But she understood in perfection… 11:59
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6 Much as the change did for the value… 09:58
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7 As she saw herself, suddenly, he saw her… 09:25
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Disc 16
1 Densher for an instant, but only for an instant… 07:04
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2 It wasn't till afterwards that, going back to it… 10:34
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3 Book Ninth 10:22
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4 To go with her was the thing… 11:08
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5 She had for twenty seconds an exquisite pale… 10:50
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6 Chapter 2 09:34
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7 He did so then, daily, for twenty days… 13:31
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Disc 17
1 His eye had caught a face within the cafe… 08:51
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2 The day or two passed… 07:18
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3 Chapter 3 11:58
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4 His friend, after all, helped him… 12:37
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5 More and more, for the last five minutes… 12:29
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6 'I've given her none that hasn't been decently…' 10:45
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Disc 18
1 Chapter 4 10:57
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2 The facts of physical suffering, of incurable pain… 09:17
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3 The result of it was the oddest consciousness… 11:19
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4 Book Tenth 10:06
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5 She gave him her quietest attention… 09:53
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6 It was perhaps not as going into it… 12:33
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7 'Oh!' said Kate. 09:46
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Disc 19
1 Chapter 2 09:37
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2 Densher had said nothing about his appreciation… 13:11
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3 Kate came at last by the way he had thought… 11:47
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4 Chapter 3 11:34
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5 It rather racked him, but he tried to receive it… 12:11
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6 Chapter 4 13:47
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Disc 20
1 She had the air of thinking what it then might be. 13:18
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2 Chapter 5 11:58
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3 He only for a minute looked out in silence… 11:19
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4 Chapter 6 12:21
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5 Yet all the while too the tension had its charm… 11:38
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6 She was struck – it showed in her face… 12:33
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Total Playing Time: 22:54:01