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Abstract: Milly Theale is as fabulously rich, young and alone in the world as a fairytale princess. Suffering (we gradually realize) from a grave illness, she arrives in Europe with her companion, Mrs Stringham, willing to be captivated and eager for happiness. In a corner of London drawing-room society she meets the vibrantly dazzling Kate Croy, and is introduced to Merton Densher, an attractive journalist who, for expediency's sake, would fall in love with her if he could... Human greed and human tragedy are the themes of this beautifully worked novel which, with The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl, makes, as John Bayley comments, ' the crown of Henry James's achievement'. 'The Wings of the Dove,' along with Ambassadors and 'The Golden Bowl,' makes, John Bayley comments, ‘the crown of Henry James’s achievement’.