- Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Romance, Americans
Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely.
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Henry James
- First published
- June 1957
- Pages
- 440
- Publisher
- Amereon Limited, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, NuVision Publications, LLC
- Editions
- 231
- Language
- French, English, Spanish, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780848813840
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“STRETHER'S FIRST question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted.”
Henry James, was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James
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