The Golden Bowl — Volume 1
A wealthy family's domestic arrangements are followed as a young woman marries a foreign prince while her father forms a new household of his own; past intimacies and undisclosed alliances gradually surface and complicate the marriages. A precious decorative object functions as a recurring emblem of beauty, value, and fragility. Through patient psychological observation and shifting perspectives the narrative probes self-deception, the social commerce of feeling, and the uneasy gap between private motives and public manners, tracing how perception and reserve shape choices and reveal moral ambiguity.
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A wealthy family's domestic arrangements are followed as a young woman marries a foreign prince while her father forms a new household of his own; past intimacies and undisclosed alliances gradually surface and complicate the marriages. A precious decorative object functions as a recurring emblem of beauty, value, and fragility. Through patient psychological observation and shifting perspectives the narrative probes self-deception, the social commerce of feeling, and the uneasy gap between private motives and public manners, tracing how perception and reserve shape choices and reveal moral ambiguity.
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