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3 unusual facts about The Golden Bowl


Madame de Mauves

James would write many more fictions about the clash of America and Europe, leading to the ultimate synthesis in The Golden Bowl.

Steuben Glass Works

The glass bowl in the Merchant Ivory film, The Golden Bowl (2000), was designed by Eric Hilton at Steuben Glass.

The Golden Bowl

The Novels of Henry James by Edward Wagenknecht (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1983) ISBN 0-8044-2959-6



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Sonia Orwell

Her friend the painter Francis Bacon paid off her outstanding debts and at her funeral Tom Gross read the same passage from Ecclesiastes about the breaking of the golden bowl that she had asked Anthony Powell to read at Orwell's funeral thirty years earlier.