An International Episode
by Henry James
Publisher: Harper & Brothers 1892
ISBN/ASIN: 0809593939
Number of pages: 178
Description:
In this short novel Henry James plays with a major issue of his personal life and of his time and place generally: the interaction between individuals from England and America around the turn of the 19th into the 20th century.
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