Dimensions
131 x 197 x 23mm
Christopher Newman is 'The American' in Paris. And the woman who meets his notions and captures his heart is Madame de Cintre. But she is a Bellegarde, a family of diminished fortune and almost as old as France itself, whose outrageous pride can only be sustained by "counting ancestors". Newman is new money, a "barbarian", a man who has made his own fortune and for whom money must always be in search of a railroad or a factory in which to invest. The Bellegardes cannot like his impulsive proposal, they can only suffer it. But for how long?
With 'The American' Henry James created a new type of novel, and laid down the bold lines of American fiction for the next century - the cultural clash as the Old World meets the New.
The most comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of James's life and times.
