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Author James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Title The American / Henry James ; edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole.

Publication Info. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 400 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi).
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Henry James; THE AMERICAN; Appendix 1: The Stage Versions; Appendix 2: The Revised Version for the New York Edition; Explanatory Notes; Glossary of French Words and Phrases.
Summary A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. 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 heretakes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. - ;Ỳou you a nun; you with your beauty deface.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Americans -- France -- Fiction.
Americans.
France.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Courtship -- Fiction.
Courtship.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Added Author Poole, Adrian.
Other Form: Print version: James, Henry, 1843-1916. American. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0192833227 (DLC) 98042570 (OCoLC)39765373
ISBN 9780191588808 (electronic book)
0191588806 (electronic book)
0585384924 (electronic book)
9780585384924 (electronic book)

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