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Author / Creator:James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Imprint:Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 400 pages).
Language:English
Series:Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114743
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Other authors / contributors:Poole, Adrian.
ISBN:9780191588808
0191588806
0585384924
9780585384924
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi).
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Summary:A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. 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 heretakes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. - ;Ỳou you a nun; you with your beauty deface.
Other form:Print version: James, Henry, 1843-1916. American. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0192833227