by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140621952
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«The Europeans» is the short novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Eugenia, morganatic wife of a German prince, travels to Boston with her brother, the artist Felix, to visit their Wentworth relatives, hoping to secure an advantageous marriage. European sophistication and New England Puritan morality clash in a comedy of manners of subtle contrasts and elegant observations.
This edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics series; the work was originally published in 1878 under the title The Europeans: A Sketch.
For a general audience interested in classic nineteenth-century fiction and short novels.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
