![]() ![]() Meeting Newman at the Louvre the next day, though, Noémie frankly tells him that she has no talent and her paintings are worthless. ![]() ![]() Nioche worries about his daughter's future since he is poor, says that he will buy enough paintings from Noémie to give her a respectable dowry. ![]() Nioche to teach him French and the two become friendly Newman, learning that M. About the same time a mutual friend introduces Newman to Claire de Cintré, a young widow. Having worked for a living since age ten (interrupted by service in the Union Army during the American Civil War), he has made a large fortune and retired in his thirties, and is now looking to settle down and get married.Īt the Louvre in Paris, he watches a painter named Noémie he offers to buy the copy she is making and meets her father, M. In 1868, Christopher Newman, an American businessman, visits Europe on a Grand Tour. The core of the novel concerns Newman's courtship of a young widow from an aristocratic Parisian family. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th-century American business. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. ![]()
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