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  1. The American
    Author: James, Henry
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford [England] [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. Can they stomach his manners for... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and the new, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama a fable which in the later version printed heretakes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. - ;Ỳou you a nun; you with your beauty deface.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Poole, Adrian
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191588808; 0191588806; 0585384924; 9780585384924
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 400 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi)

  2. The American
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford [England]

    A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. Can they stomach his manners for... more

    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. His bid for Claire de Cintr--eacute--; hand receives an icy welcome from the heads of her aristocratic family. Can they stomach his manners for the sake of his dollars? Out of this classic collision between the old world and the new, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama a fable which in the later version printed heretakes on some of the subtleties associated with this greatest novels. - ;Ỳou you a nun; you with your beauty deface

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191588808; 0191588806; 0585384924; 9780585384924
    Series: Oxford world's classics
    Subjects: Americans; Courtship; Americans; Courtship; Literature; Fiction; Americans; Psychological fiction; Psychological fiction; Psychological fiction; Courtship
    Scope: Online Ressource (xxxiv, 400 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii-xxxi). - Description based on print version record