The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl
First UK edition
AuthorHenry James
LanguageEnglish
PublisherScribner (US)
Methuen (UK)
Publication date
10 November 1904
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
PagesVol. 1, 412 pp; Vol. 2, 377pp (US)
ISBN978-1514729427

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight.