The American

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by George Inness, Albert Bierstadt and Édouard Vuillard. A self-made American businessman comes to Paris to buy the best of everything, including a wife, and discovers that the family he has chosen from cannot be bought at any price. James wrote it in his early thirties, and the ending - which he refused to change to please anybody - is the first t...