The American Paperback / softback

by Henry James

Edited by Adrian (Reader in English and Comparative Literature, Reader in English and Comparative Liter Poole

Part of the Oxford World's Classics series

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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 Cintré, 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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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:448 pages
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Publication Date:30/07/2009
Category:
- Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN:9780199555208

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