The American
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Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman in Paris, courts a French aristocratic widow and confronts the resistance of her tradition-bound family. Readers interested in nineteenth-century social contrasts between American and European sensibilities will find it rewarding.
Henry James
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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