num_pages: 208
description: Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of making a wealthy marriage. The men of Bostonsoon realize her deceitfulness, and she returns to Europe, feeling that her fortune-hunting scheme is impractical in unsusceptible America.Its wit, gaiety, and what Rebecca West calls its "clear sunlit charm" have made this masterly short novel the most popular of James's novels.
language: English
title: The Europeans
titlecomplete: The Europeans (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Robert Acton, Felix Young, Charlotte Wentworth, Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, Clifford Wentworth, Gertrude Wentworth
genres: Classics, Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, American, American Classics, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4840
publisher: Oxford University Press