Glasses: A Tale of Beauty and Its Price
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A girl of extraordinary beauty is going blind, and will not wear the glasses that would save what sight she has — because they would spoil her face, which is the only capital she has. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1896 story is his most brutal about what beauty is worth as currency, and the narrator, a portrait painter, is complicit throughout. Thirty-six plates of shipping, quaysides and figures on the Embankment, among them work by Henry Redmore and Walter Greaves, extend the story's world of faces, harbours and what is looked at and paid for.
A girl of extraordinary beauty is going blind, and will not wear the glasses that would save what sight she has — because they would spoil her face, which is the only capital she has. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1896 story is his most brutal about what ...
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Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-born author who lived and worked in Europe, primarily in England, where he became a British subject in 1915. His body of work includes novels and novellas such as The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and Daisy Miller, which often examine the complexities of transatlantic cultural encounters and psychological states.
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-born author who lived and worked in Europe, primarily in England, where he became a British subject in 1915. His body of work includes novels and novellas such as The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and Daisy Miller, which often examine the compl...
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