The American
Revised Edition
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- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
31 October 1991
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390827 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140390820 |
| Author: | Henry James, William Spengemann |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 31 October 1991 |
| Weight: | 371g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Henry James
Henry James (1843-1916)
Born in New York City, Henry James was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London, and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, briefly attended Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began contributing criticism and tales to magazines.
In 1869, and then again from 1872-74, he visited Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876, he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller.
Other famous works include:
- Washington Square (1880)
- The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
- The Princess Casamassima (1886)
- The Aspern Papers (1888)
- The Turn of the Screw (1898)
- The Wings of the Dove (1902)
- The Ambassadors (1903)
- The Golden Bowl (1904)
In 1905, he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).
During his career, he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914. In 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916, King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.
William C. Spengemann
William C. Spengemann is the Hale Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He edited the Penguin Classics edition of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.
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