The American
The American
Henry James
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"The American" by Henry James is a novel published in 1877. Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, travels to Europe seeking culture and a refined wife. He falls for Claire de Cintré, a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family. But Newman's honest American spirit collides with Old World class prejudices and dark family secrets. As romance blooms and complications mount, he must navigate the treacherous divide between New World optimism and European sophistication in this tale of international manners and mismatched worlds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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- 1The American1,232 chars
- 2CHAPTER I21,227 chars
- 3CHAPTER II24,875 chars
- 4CHAPTER III37,655 chars
- 5CHAPTER IV31,824 chars
- 6CHAPTER V30,515 chars
- 7CHAPTER VI27,987 chars
- 8CHAPTER VII32,134 chars
- 9CHAPTER VIII22,343 chars
- 10CHAPTER IX17,143 chars
- 11CHAPTER X31,067 chars
- 12CHAPTER XI19,120 chars
- 13CHAPTER XII31,603 chars
- 14CHAPTER XIII33,829 chars
- 15CHAPTER XIV23,564 chars
- 16CHAPTER XV25,442 chars
- 17CHAPTER XVI35,707 chars
- 18CHAPTER XVII39,793 chars
- 19CHAPTER XVIII24,635 chars
- 20CHAPTER XIX32,895 chars
- 21CHAPTER XX24,611 chars
- 22CHAPTER XXI26,032 chars
- 23CHAPTER XXII37,147 chars
- 24CHAPTER XXIII17,970 chars
- 25CHAPTER XXIV33,730 chars
- 26CHAPTER XXV31,956 chars
- 27CHAPTER XXVI22,253 chars