“是的，我喜欢独立自主。但我一直想知道什么事情是不应该做的。” “为的是去干这些事吗？” “为了是可以有所选择。”

Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “ The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”

本书是一篇近代著名的歌特小说。内容悬念迭起气氛紧张，如同螺丝在拧紧。