TY - BOOK AU - James,Henry TI - The American AV - PS PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Psychological fiction KW - Love stories KW - Widows -- Fiction KW - Courtship -- Fiction KW - Paris (France) -- Fiction KW - Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction KW - Culture conflict -- Fiction KW - Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction KW - Americans -- France -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_(novel); Release date is 2006-03-12; Pauline J. Iacono, John Hamm and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/177 ER -