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The Europeans, a sketch

Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of making a wealthy marriage. The men of Boston soon realize her deceitfulness, and she returns to Europe, feeling that her fortune-hunting scheme is impractical in unsusceptible America. - Publisher.

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  • "Europeans"@pl
  • "Europeans"

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  • "Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of making a wealthy marriage. The men of Boston soon realize her deceitfulness, and she returns to Europe, feeling that her fortune-hunting scheme is impractical in unsusceptible America. - Publisher."@en
  • "The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England. The novel first appeared as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly for July-October, 1878. James made numerous minor revisions for the first book publication.-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia."@en
  • "Henry James, the nineteenth-century American writer who was lauded for his skill with insightful, elegantly styled prose, was fascinated by the differences between Americans and their European counterparts. This theme was a feature of many of his works, including the novella The Europeans. In this text, James takes a comic approach to highlighting the stark contrasts between the two cultures."
  • "Henry James, the nineteenth-century American writer who was lauded for his skill with insightful, elegantly styled prose, was fascinated by the differences between Americans and their European counterparts. This theme was a feature of many of his works, including the novella The Europeans. In this text, James takes a comic approach to highlighting the stark contrasts between the two cultures."@en
  • "Edition originale, 1878. Une mise en évidence du contraste psychologique qui existe entre l'Europe et les Etats-Unis d'Amérique, comme il est dit en substance dans le ##Dictionnaire des oeuvres de tous les temps##. Henry James décrit les rapports de deux charmants aventuriers (frère et soeur) et de leurs parents puritains, bostoniens et bien nantis."
  • "This is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry."
  • "Set in the countryside around Boston in the mid-nineteenth century, The Europeans concerns the effect of Old World experience on New World innocence."@en
  • "Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a German prince. Their exotic, sophisticated airs cause quite a stir with their affluent, God-fearing American cousins, the Wentworths - and provoke the disapproval of their uncle, suspicious of foreign influences. To Gertrude Wentworth, struggling against her sombre Puritan upbringing, the arrival of the handsome Felix is especially enchanting--Novelist."@en
  • ""The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (hereafter CFHJ) has been undertaken in the belief that there is a need for a full scholarly, informative, historical edition of his work, presenting the texts in carefully checked, accurate form, with detailed annotation and extensive introductions. James's texts exist in a number of forms, including manuscripts (though most are lost), serial texts, and volumes of various sorts, often incorporating significant amounts of revision, most conspicuously the so-called New York Edition (hereafter NYE) published by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York and Macmillan & Co. in London (1907-9). Besides these there are also pirated editions, unfinished works published posthumously, and other questionable forms. The CFHJ takes account of these complexities, within the framework of a textual policy which aims to be clear, orderly and consistent"--"
  • "Felix Young and his sister the Baroness Munster descend upon their Puritan cousins, the Wentworths, in the Arcadian setting of the New England countryside of mid-nineteenth century America. The inevitable clash between European epicureanism and Puritan restraint ensues, providing humour, paradox, and some revealing insight. Truly one of James's masterpieces, <i>The Europeans</i> constitutes a dazzling performance of delicacy and wit."@en
  • ""The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. James' The Europeans gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century New England society and the sophisticated visiting Europeans who encounter it. While this wryly comic novel has had its critical champions - F. R. Leavis and Richard Poirier among them - it has not previously received the scholarly attention it deserves. This edition, based on the work's first book appearance in 1878, reconstructs the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts, provides extensive annotation, and gives a detailed textual history of the work, drawing on newly available James letters. It will be of interest to James scholars, book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture, and will also re-introduce readers to the pleasures of Henry James' early style"--"
  • "A comedy that is the polar opposite of most of his work, this short novel follows the misconceptions and misadventures of two European siblings living in the New World."
  • "With hopes of improving their sagging fortunes, the Baroness Eugenia and her brother Felix travel to New England in 1850 to seek out their rich American cousins."@en
  • "With hopes of improving their sagging fortunes, the Baroness Eugenia and her brother Felix travel to New England in 1850 to seek out their rich American cousins."
  • ""Eugenia, Baroness Münster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. ... The advent of these visiters is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension."--Cover."@en
  • "Two Europeans, an English brother and sister, come to America to seek their fortune. A delightful fable of culture in collision."@en
  • "In this light-hearted novel, a brother and sister who have been raised in Europe travel to New England to visit their cousins, and the clash of customs, opinions, and moral values results in enlightenment for everyone involved."
  • "In this light-hearted novel, a brother and sister who have been raised in Europe travel to New England to visit their cousins, and the clash of customs, opinions, and moral values results in enlightenment for everyone involved."@en
  • "Although Henry James was himself none too fond of 'The Europeans', the novel has nevertheless proved to be a firm favourite with readers ever since its publication in 1878. The juxtaposition of two cultures with their differing values and expectations was fertile ground for James' comic genius, and he uses the varied interplay of characters to poke fun at the social mores of the day while at the same time attempting a more serious critique of New England society."
  • "The Europeans concerns an expatriate American, Eugenia, and her artist brother, Felix Young. Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince, but she is to be repudiated in favor of a state marriage; thus she leaves for Boston to make an appropriate match of her own."@en
  • ""The story concerns the visit of artist Felix Young and his sister, the unhappily-married Baroness Eugenia Munster, who come from Germany to America to visit their wealthy and provincial American relatives, the Wentworths, who reside near Boston. The story follows the development of several relationships including those of Felix Young and Gertrude Wentworth, and the Reverend Mr. Brand and Charlotte Wentworth. James presents the story in a somewhat comic vein" --Provided by publisher."@en

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  • "Libros electronicos"
  • "Translations"
  • "Translations"@he
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Large print books"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Manuscripts"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "Amerikaans"
  • "Large type books"
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  • "Popular literature"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Facsimiles"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
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  • "Roman américain"
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  • "Oi Eyrōpaioi"
  • "Los Europeos : novela"
  • "The Europeans, a sketch"@en
  • "The Europeans; a sketch"
  • "The Europeans; a sketch"@en
  • "The europeans : a sketch"
  • "Les Européens"
  • "The Europeans A sketch"@en
  • "Les Européens = The Europeans : roman"
  • "The Europeans"
  • "The Europeans"@en
  • "The Europeans : a sketch"@en
  • "The Europeans : a sketch"
  • "הארופאים"
  • "Los europeos Henry James"
  • "Les Européens. (The Europeans). Roman"
  • "hā- Êrôpāʼîm"
  • "Európai látogatók"
  • "The Europeans sketch"
  • "Los europeos"
  • "Los europeos"@es
  • "Los europeos"@ca
  • "Europarrak : zirriborro bat"
  • "The Europeans : [novel]"
  • "Ūrūpāʼī hā"
  • "Europeans, The : A Sketch"
  • "The Europeans. : a sketch"
  • "The Europeans : [a novel]"
  • "Europarrak"
  • "Europeans. a sketch"@en
  • "Europeans"
  • "Europeans"@en
  • "האירופאים"
  • "The Europeans, a sketch by Henry James, jr"
  • "Europejczycy"@pl
  • "Europejczycy"
  • "Les Europeens (The Europeans)"
  • "The European : a sketch"
  • "The Europeans a Sketch"
  • "The europeans"
  • "The europeans"@es
  • "Los Europeos"
  • "Los Europeos"@ca
  • "Les Européens (The europeans). Roman"
  • "The Europeans : a Sketch"
  • "The Europeans : A sketch"
  • "EUROPEENS"
  • "Die Europäer Roman"
  • "Los europeos Henry James ; traducción, José Luis López Muñoz"@es
  • "Urūpāʼīhā"
  • "Evropejci"
  • "Les Européens : roman"
  • "[The Europeans. A sketch.]"@en
  • "Les Européens : ("the Europeans"), roman traduit de l'anglais par Denise Van Moppès"
  • "اروپائيها"
  • "The Europeans : sketch"
  • "Les européens = (The Europeans) : roman"
  • "The Europeans. With an afterword by Richard Poirier"@en
  • "The Europeans a sketch"@en
  • "The Europeans a sketch"
  • "The Europeans. [With a portrait.]"@en
  • "The europeans a sketch"
  • "The Europeans : A sketch. With on introd. by Edward Sackville-West"
  • "Europeans. A sketch"@en
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "The Europeans [text in Hebrew]"
  • "Európai látogatók : [regény]"@hu
  • "ha-Eropeʼim"
  • "The Europeans. A sketch"@en
  • "The Europeans. A sketch"

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