The American [Paperback]

Henry James (Author)

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Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reissue edition (Aug 30 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199555206
ISBN-13: 978-0199555208
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13.4 x 2.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 259 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #462,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintre, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for Claire's hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of the family, an elder brother and their formidable mother, the old Marquise. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and the new, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama a fable which in the later version printed here takes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels.

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Adrian Poole is Reader in English and Comparative Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.

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This product was not what i expected and also did not look like the book in the picture at all. Although it was the same book it was a much older version.

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