品牌：Henry James
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：480 页码
·出版日：1981年
·ISBN：0140390820
·条码：9780140390827
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
内容简介
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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.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介
The most comprehensive paperback edition availableThe editor presents the latest scholarship on James in an edition that includes an introduction, notes, selected criticism, a text summary and a chronology of James’s life and timesReset with wide B format pages to give generous margins for notes--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Henry James' great theme is the collision of cultures, of New World American energy encountering Old World European aristocracy; and his supreme skill is in the delineation of the unspoken subtleties that govern human interaction-- the meanings behind people's words, the delicate signals by which people communicate more than the conventions of conversation or society allow.The Americanis built around a moral dilemma that dramatises this clash of cultures. Wealthy, open-hearted Christopher Newman (the New Man in the Old World) visits Paris and falls in love with impoverished French aristocrat, Claire de Cintre. However, her snobbish family bully her into breaking off the engagement. When Newman discovers that his former fiancée's family are hiding a dark secret, corrupt Old World morals suggest he should use it to take his revenge; but his simpler American sense tells him that this would be wrong. What should he do? The fine touch with which James explores the complexities of this scenario markes an extraordinary advance over his first novel,Roderick Hudson; andThe Americanlooks forward to the mature classics of James' middle period, books likeDaisy MillerandPortrai t of a Lady--all novels that explore the classic Jamesian theme of Americans in Europe. --Adam Roberts--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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