The Wings of the Dove is titled by Henry James in 1902. It describes Milly Theale, an American heiress who was diagnosed with a serious illness, and how she affected everyone around her. While some of these individuals have good intentions when they become friends with Milly, others have more selfish goals. Merton Densher and Kate Croy are two promised Londoners who desperately want to marry but have very little money. They meet Milly Theale, an enormously rich young American woman who has fallen in love with them both. Kate suspects that Milly is deathly ill and wants her to see a doctor urgently. The lovers part with a cryptic exclamation: "We shall never be again as we were!". The Wings of the Dove was Milly's attempt to wrap her memory in the "beauty and dignity of art" Milly had to prepare for the situation that was to occupy her for the last months of her life. In 1998, The Wings of the Dove was ranked 26th on Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. James took a lot of time in the preface to the New York Edition to admit to supposed flaws in the book.
Henry James OM was an American-born British author born in New York City on 15 April 1843. He is recognized as a crucial figure in the transition from literary realism to literary modernism. Henry James, Sr., an investor, and banker in Albany, was his father. Henry James was medically unfit in 1861 to fight in the American Civil War. For The Nation and Atlantic Monthly, he produced both fiction and nonfiction writing. Later, in 1878, Watch and Ward was published as a book. He left for Paris in 1875 and arrived in London in 1876. The Portrait of a Lady (1878), was released in 1881. He relocated to Sussex in 1897-1898, where he wrote The Turn of the Screw. He wrote The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl between 1902 and 1904. He received the Order of Merit in 1915 and became a citizen of Great Britain. His memoirs A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother were both published in 1913. He received the Order of Merit in 1915 and became a citizen of Great Britain. He was cremated after passing away on February 28, 1916, in Chelsea, London.
