The Europeans: A Sketch (Oxford World's Classics)

by HenryJames (Author), IanCampbellRoss (Contributor)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  Eugenia, Baroness M nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently, by natural affection; but the Baroness has also come to seek her fortune. The advent of these visitors is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension. The brilliant Eugenia fascinates her impressionable cousins and their more worldly neighbour, but she is baffled by these people, 'to whom fibbing was not pleasing'. Meanwhile Felix, painter of trifling sketches, eases them all in and out of various amorous complications, with 'no fear of not being, in the end, agreeable'.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.25

  Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince who is repudiated by her husband in favour of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix, she goes to Boston to live with relatives whom she has never seen before, with hopes of making a wealthy marriage.

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $9.98

  one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.