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  • Published: 31 October 1991
  • ISBN: 9780140390827
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $34.00

The American

Revised Edition



Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James's masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

  • Published: 31 October 1991
  • ISBN: 9780140390827
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $34.00

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