In 1868 Christopher Newman, a rich, good-natured businessman from the American West, sits in the Louvre and decides to find a wife. He sets his heart on Claire de Cintré, a widowed aristocrat, and her family, the Bellegardes, must decide whether their ancient name can bear an alliance with a man who made his money in washtubs.
James’s 1877 study of New World innocence against Old World pride, the theme he made his own. Download the free EPUB.