Henry James

The American By Henry James Illustrated Version

The American is a unique through Henry James, at the start published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as an eBook in 1877. The novel is an uneasy aggregate of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, a basically appropriate-hearted however instead gauche American businessman on his first excursion of Europe. Newman is searching out an international exclusive from the simple, harsh realities of nineteenth-century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take both for granted.