The American (Oxford World's Classics)

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The American (Oxford World's Classics)

`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 CintrÃ©, 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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Country	USA
Author	Henry James
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780191605338
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	OUP Oxford
Manufacturer	OUP Oxford
NumberOfPages	434
PublicationDate	1999-04-01
Publisher	OUP Oxford
ReleaseDate	1999-04-01
Studio	OUP Oxford

The American (Oxford World's Classics)

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