The American: An American Millionaire Courts Old Paris
Henry James
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A self-made American businessman comes to Paris to buy the best of everything, including a wife, and discovers that the family he has chosen from cannot be bought at any price. James wrote it in his early thirties, and the ending - which he refused to change to please anybody - is the first time he did the thing he became famous for. Fifty-seven plates of American landscape and street scenes by Albert Bierstadt and George Inness, 1849 to 1909, run alongside the novel as a visual counterpart to its transatlantic clash of new money and old world.
A self-made American businessman comes to Paris to buy the best of everything, including a wife, and discovers that the family he has chosen from cannot be bought at any price. James wrote it in his early thirties, and the ending - which he refused to change to please anybody - is the first time ...
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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born novelist who settled in England and took British citizenship in the last year of his life. He wrote twenty novels, over a hundred stories and a great deal of criticism, and is credited with bringing the point of view into English fiction. His works include The American, The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Turn of the Screw.
Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-born novelist who settled in England and took British citizenship in the last year of his life. He wrote twenty novels, over a hundred stories and a great deal of criticism, and is credited with bringing the point of view into English fiction. His works inc...
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