Wings of the Dove Authoritative Text, the Author and the Novel, Criticism

"[W]hat must surely be the most exhaustive attempt ever made of rendering the sensitivity or reflection of a tragic experience. It is the experience that matters; the aesthetic achievement is secondary....It is Milly's consciousness of her experience, and the consciousness of sin on the part of Kate and Densher, that make the novel great. It is an education, a growth of the moral sense in all involved, that is the 'reality' of the novel."James, Henry is the author of 'Wings of the Dove Authoritative Text, the Author and the Novel, Criticism' with ISBN 9780393978810 and ISBN 0393978818.