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The American

Revised Edition

By: Henry James

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Paperback | 31 October 1991 | Edition Number 1

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480 Pages

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18+

Dimensions(cm)
19.7 x 13.0 x 2.3

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Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme-the clash between European and American cultures, the Old World and the New

Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge?

James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.

Edited with an Introduction by WILLIAM SPENGEMANN

About the Author

Born in New York of Irish and Scottish ancestry and educated in New York, London and Paris, Henry James is best known for his cosmopolitan and often haunting portraits of European and American life. He was also a prolific writer of literary criticism and shorter fiction. James settled in England in 1876, where he spent most of the rest of his life and completed his best-known work.

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