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The American (Annotated)
Henry James
出版
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
, 2016-09-30
主題
Fiction / Romance / Multicultural & Interracial
ISBN
1539155315
9781539155317
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e41JvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th-century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted. The core of the novel concerns Newman's courtship of a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family.