The Wings Of The Dove: Penguin English Library

A tale of betrayal and doomed passion, The Wings of the Dove sees a penniless couple desperate to marry. Ambitious, young and in love, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are delighted to find rich American heiress Milly Theale visiting them in London - but for very different reasons. For Milly is dying, and is in love with Merton - and Kate sees exactly how she and her fiance; might find the money they need... Populated with fortune-hunters, rich relatives and the haunting grandeur of a Venetian palazzo, this love story from Henry James examines the very best, and very worst, of people in love.