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The American by Henry James

About 629 pages (188,645 words) in 9 products

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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The American eBook
118,967 words, approx. 397 pages
The complete online text of The American by Henry James.


Biography

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Biography of Henry James
1106 words, approx. 3.7 pages
The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works deal largely with the impact of Europe and its society on Americans. Henry James, the son of a theologian and the brother of t...
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Biography of Henry James
19287 words, approx. 64.3 pages
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
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Biography of Henry James
16638 words, approx. 55.5 pages
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The American Information
1,227 words, approx. 4 pages
The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-1877 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of...


News and Journals
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Novel
Is There An Early American Novel?
10/01/2006: 7,034 words, approx. 23 pages
As scholars from Leslie Fiedler to Philip Fisher have demonstrated, James Fenimore Cooper's frontier fiction lends itself to allegorical readings about the founding of a nation at once masculine and American in origin. An obvious tautology informs all such readings: if novels are about...
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Ideas on Liberty
The Fountainhead: An American Novel
03/01/2000: 715 words, approx. 2 pages
The Fountainhead. An American Novel by Douglas J. Den Uyl Twayne Publishers * 1999 * 123 pages * $32.00 Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan "But of course, if individualism really is central to Americanism, then The Fountainhead is the quintessential...
 


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Prostitution
1,056 words, approx. 4 pages
Henry James', The American, and the prostitution in the novel.


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The American by Henry James

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