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`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintre, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for Claire's hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of the family, an elder brother and their formidable mother, the old Marquise. 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 here takes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels.
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The American, Henry James, William Spengemann
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- Rok vydania
- 1981
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- Titul
- The American
- Podtitul
- Penguin Classics – Edited With an Introduction by William Spengemann
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Henry James, William Spengemann
- Vydavateľ
- Penguin Classics
- Rok vydania
- 1981
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 480
- ISBN10
- 014039009X
- ISBN13
- 9780140390094
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Historické romány, Klasika, Americká literatúra, 19. storočie, Paríž, Nešťastná láska
- Hodnotenie
- 3,45 z 5
- Anotácia
- `You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintre, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for Claire's hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of the family, an elder brother and their formidable mother, the old Marquise. 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 here takes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels.