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Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the family oppose the idea of the couple’s marriage, reversals of fortune cause them to reconsider. When another suitor arrives on the scene all appears lost, until Newman befriends Claire’s younger brother Valentin and finds himself in possession of a dark family secret. As the novel unfolds, James’s unmistakable stylistic grace combines with his less…

`You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintré, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for Claire's hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of the family, an elder brother and their formidable mother, the old Marquise. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and…

Henry James brilliantly combines comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama in this tale of a wealthy American businessman in Paris. Determined to marry Claire de Cintré, a scintillating and beautiful aristocrat, Christopher Newman comes up against the machinations of her impoverished but proud family in a dramatic clash between the Old World and the New. A co-production with the BBC, starring Diana Rigg, Matthew Modine, and Brenda Fricker.

Роман «Американец» (1877) знакомит читателя с ранним периодом творчества Г. Джеймса. На пути его героев становится европейская сословная кастовость. Уж слишком не совпадают самый дух и строй жизни на разных континентах. И это несоответствие драматически сказывается на судьбах психологически тонкого романа о несостоявшейся любви.

Christopher Newman is a rich American visiting Paris, where he meets Claire de Cintre, a widow of noble birth. He is treated at first with hostility by all of her family except her younger brother Valentin, and later tolerated only because of his wealth. By cunning and guile, Claire and her family evade and betray Newman. However, the discovery of a family secret offers him the possibility of a sublime revenge. In choosing whether or not to take this option, Newman becomes James`s innocent American abroad, and Claire and her family represent the corruption and repression of the Old World and old values. A masterly story of romance and a…

The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th-century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted. The core of the novel concerns Newman's courtship of a young widow from…

Роман «Американец» (1877) знакомит читателя с ранним периодом творчества Г. Джеймса. На пути его героев становится европейская сословная кастовость. Уж слишком не совпадают самый дух и строй жизни на разных континентах. И это несоответствие драматически сказывается на судьбах психологически тонкого романа о несостоявшейся любви.