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The American

Author
Henry James
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
12 hours 43 minutes
ISBN
9781802560701
Published
23 September 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Henry James
  • tragicomedy
  • melodrama
  • engagement
  • humour
  • comedy
  • dark comedy
  • stream of consciousness
  • philosophical
  • psychological

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Wealthy Christopher Newman courts Claire de Cintré in Paris and meets the Bellegarde family’s cold wall of rank. American frankness against European pride. Spoken as James when money cannot buy a name.

Author

Henry James (1843–1916) is among the supreme novelists in English — an American who made Europe his stage and consciousness his subject. In The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove he traced Americans abroad through drawing rooms, secrets, and moral choice with unmatched psychological precision. James wrote sentences that think: long, exacting, and alive to every shade of feeling between people.

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