The American PDF Henry James

You can download or read online full ebook The American for free in pdf, epub, mobi and other mobile formats. To read this book in browser click on read now button, and to download click on download button. The book can be easily translated in to other languages like Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, French, Russian, Bengali and many more. To translate it in to other languages click on "Select Language" of Google Translate button.

But he returns empty-handed because he cannot violate his good nature to save her. The modern reader will not easily forgive Newman the precious “good nature” that is so necessary to his opinion of himself as a “good fellow wronged.” Instead of insisting, against all evidence to the contrary, that he is “not wicked,” he might better say, as does the American heroine of James’s “Madame de Mauves": “I believe that if my conscience will prevent me from doing anything very base, it will effectually prevent me from doing anything very fine.” The “fine” thing for Newman to do, surely, would be to acknowledge the baneful effect of his “good nature” on the lives of Noémie, Valentin, and Claire, and to sacrifice his good opinion of himself in order to repair some of the damage he has done. If he had used the letter, Mrs. Tristram assures him in the final scene, the Bellegardes wo

• Book Name: The American pdf
• Author Name Henry James
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 1981

Read Online Free Download Now