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The American

Henry James

The American

Henry James

27 chapters · ~133,864 words · Moderate · Downloaded 1,288 times on Gutenberg in the last 30 days · Source

"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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  1. 1The American1,232 chars
  2. 2CHAPTER I21,227 chars
  3. 3CHAPTER II24,875 chars
  4. 4CHAPTER III37,655 chars
  5. 5CHAPTER IV31,824 chars
  6. 6CHAPTER V30,515 chars
  7. 7CHAPTER VI27,987 chars
  8. 8CHAPTER VII32,134 chars
  9. 9CHAPTER VIII22,343 chars
  10. 10CHAPTER IX17,143 chars
  11. 11CHAPTER X31,067 chars
  12. 12CHAPTER XI19,120 chars
  13. 13CHAPTER XII31,603 chars
  14. 14CHAPTER XIII33,829 chars
  15. 15CHAPTER XIV23,564 chars
  16. 16CHAPTER XV25,442 chars
  17. 17CHAPTER XVI35,707 chars
  18. 18CHAPTER XVII39,793 chars
  19. 19CHAPTER XVIII24,635 chars
  20. 20CHAPTER XIX32,895 chars
  21. 21CHAPTER XX24,611 chars
  22. 22CHAPTER XXI26,032 chars
  23. 23CHAPTER XXII37,147 chars
  24. 24CHAPTER XXIII17,970 chars
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIV33,730 chars
  26. 26CHAPTER XXV31,956 chars
  27. 27CHAPTER XXVI22,253 chars