The Golden Bowl — Complete

THE GOLDEN BOWL

Volumes I and II, Complete

By Henry James

1904

BOOK FIRST: THE PRINCE

PART FIRST

I

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. Brought up on the legend of the City ...