Paris, autumn 1879: Miranda Mope of Bangor, Maine, writes home about her quest for culture, and the other lodgers in her French pension do the same. A fashionable New York girl, a languid young Bostonian, an English family, a German professor and a Parisian clerk each describe the same house and the same people, and each misreads them in a revealingly national way.
A small comic gem of James’s international theme, told entirely in letters. Download the free EPUB.