The American: Revised Edition - Couverture souple

James, Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140390820 ISBN 13 : 9780140390827

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 1981

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Henry James was born in 1843 in new York, with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Having studied in New York and Europe, he became a lawyer, and started writing in 1865. Spending time in Paris he knew Flaubert and Turgenev, before moving to London and then Sussex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140390820
• ISBN 13: 9780140390827
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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