The Europeans (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) - Henry James

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Résumé :
One of Henry James's most engaging novels, The Europeans, takes as its subject the cultural interactions, misunderstandings, and conflicts between American and European sensibilities in the mid-nineteenth century. It revolves around two European-raised siblings, Eugenia M?nster and Felix Young, who travel to Boston to visit their American relatives, the Wentworths. He embraces this new environment with delight and enthusiasm, while she, older and seeking a wealthy husband, is more skeptical and detached. With satiric skill and insight, James contrasts the puritanical, reserved nature of the New England family with the more sophisticated and free-spirited Europeans. His witty, nuanced story explores Old World and New World views and values, and the complexities of romance and relationship. This Warbler Classics edition includes an Introduction, a Note on the Text, Annotations, a Biographical Timeline, and Further Reading by William E. Cain....

Biographie:
Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City and educated there and in London, Paris, and Geneva. Cosmopolitan and multilingual, he spent most of his life and literary career in Europe. He wrote 22 novels, 112 short stories, 12 plays, and more than 200 essays and reviews as well as travel books and autobiographies. Considered among the greatest authors in world literature, his best-known novels include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors....

Sommaire:
One of Henry James's most engaging novels, The Europeans, takes as its subject the cultural interactions, misunderstandings, and conflicts between American and European sensibilities in the mid-nineteenth century. It revolves around two European-raised siblings, Eugenia M?nster and Felix Young, who travel to Boston to visit their American relatives, the Wentworths. He embraces this new environment with delight and enthusiasm, while she, older and seeking a wealthy husband, is more skeptical and detached. With satiric skill and insight, James contrasts the puritanical, reserved nature of the New England family with the more sophisticated and free-spirited Europeans. His witty, nuanced story explores Old World and New World views and values, and the complexities of romance and relationship. This Warbler Classics edition includes an Introduction, a Note on the Text, Annotations, a Biographical Timeline, and Further Reading by William E. Cain....