Penguin USA. 06/01/1986. 517 pgs. In THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, Kate Croy, a penniless young Englishwoman, tries to arrange a marriage between her fiancé Merton Densher and the American heiress she has befriended, knowing that Millie, the heiress, has a fatal illness and not long to live. Informed about the situation, Millie generously leaves her money to Densher anyway, as proof of her love for him. But Densher, conscience-stricken and devastated by this proof of purity and virtue, is unable to accept the money or to marry Kate, whom he now sees for the scheming opportunist she is. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1981. Reprint. In THE AMERICAN, a brash and wealthy American named Christopher Newman, a veteran of the Civil War, goes to Paris in search of an aristocratic wife. He falls in love with the widowed Claire de Cintré (née Bellegarde), whose ruthless, snobbish mother and older brother refuse to allow them to marry. Another family member tells Newman a family secret that he can use to force the Bellegardes to agree to the marriage, but he is too upright to do so. This early novel (1877) is one of Henry James's more accessible works, and his detailed, analytical, and always engaging view of American innocence as if succumbs to the jaded and cynical sophistication of the Old World makes for a highly enjoyable story. Originally published at $13.00 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/2002. Reprint. 256 pgs. Both of these novellas by Francine Prose are about Americans in Europe. Innocents abroad? Not exactly. In GUIDED TOURS OF HELL, Landau, a New York City playwright (and not a very successful one), travels to Prague for a Kafka conference and develops a combination of hatred and envy for a poet in the group, Jiri Krakauer, who is not only a concentration camp survivor, and not only had an affair with Kafka's sister, but is also a charismatic presence who charms everyone but Landau. When they take an excursion to that very camp, Landau's resentment comes into full bloom, and the two face off. In THREE PIGS IN FIVE DAYS, Nina is sent to Paris by Leo, her boss (and lover), to write a travel piece, but finds herself reliving previous trips there with him--and convinced he is trying to ditch her. When he unexpectedly shows up, these two take their own tourist excursion, at the end of which Nina faces some truths she was unable to look at before. Wittily and with a sharp eye, Prose puts her characters through tests that show them for exactly what they are. A New York Times Notable Book for 1997. Originally published at $12.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1987. Reprint. Lambert Strether is dispatched to Paris by the widowed Mrs. Newsome--his fiancée--to bring back her son Chadwick. It is rumored that Chad has fallen under the spell of a Frenchwoman of dubious reputation, and his mother wants him to return to take over the running of the Newsome Mills, in Massachusetts. Once in Paris, Strether undergoes a personality change. Not only does he advise Chad to remain there with his lover--the charming Mme. de Vionnet--but he comes perilously close to succumbing to the city's magic himself. The ending is both unexpected and deeply ironic; Strether's situation illustrates James's lifelong preoccupation with the differences in culture, morality, and the concept of the good life in a city like Paris vs. a New England mill town. It is, of course, no secret where the author's sympathies lie. As the aging Strether expresses it in a word of advice to a younger character: "Live all you can....Don't miss things out of stupidity. Live!" James considered this novel to be his masterpiece, and--despite its extreme length, slowness, and quiet absence of action or real suspense--critical opinion generally agrees with him. Originally published at $7.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harperaudio. 05/01/2003. Unabridged. Isabel Walker, a Berkeley film-school dropout, travels to Paris to assist her pregnant stepsister, Roxy, whose husband has left her. In her tight circle of expatriates, Isabel learns--not always painlessly--about the relations between Americans and French, and grows to an understanding of cultural differences. Originally published at $39.95 You save 97% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 11/01/1996. 161 pgs. "The mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl...a certain young woman affronting her destiny" is how Henry James describes his first perception of Isabel Archer, who grew into one of his most magnificent heroines. An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she desires, with grace and courage, to find it herself. Two eligible suitors approach her and are refused. She then becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. To him, she represents a superior prize worth at least 70 thousand pounds; through him, she faces a tragic choice. The greatest of the novels of James's early period, PORTRAIT OF A LADY was deeply influenced by both Turgenev and George Eliot. Originally published at $10.95 You save 91% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 12/01/1984. Reissue. In this light-hearted novel, a brother and sister who have been raised in Europe travel to New England to visit their cousins, and the clash of customs, opinions, and moral values results in enlightenment for everyone involved. Originally published at $9.00 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/1985. Reissue. 591 pgs. Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love and are married. When Charlotte comes to visit, Adam Verver asks her to marry him. The two couples settle in London, where Maggie begins to suspect the previous liaison between her husband and her friend. Desperately in love with the prince and unable to bear the presence of his old lover, Maggie persuades her father to take Charlotte back to America to live, without revealing to him what she knows. Impressed by Maggie's handling of the delicate situation, the prince falls truly in love with her. A golden bowl found in a Bloomsbury antique shop, and later smashed to pieces, serves as the emblem for the complicated web of love and betrayal James deals with in this novel. Originally published at $11.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 03/01/1988. Reissue. 126 pgs. DAISY MILLER is often thought of as the quintessential James novel: the story of the innocent abroad who is corrupted by contact with an older, more sophisticated society. Daisy, a delightfully uninhibited young American, scandalizes the European community in which she is a visitor with her high spirits and disregard of ancient conventions. After an innocent but unwise tryst with an Italian admirer to see the Colosseum in Rome by moonlight, Daisy contracts malaria and dies. The pathos of her death is compounded by the fact that another admirer, Winterbourne, is never entirely convinced that Daisy is merely the frank, innocent girl she seems. Originally published at $7.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 04/01/2001. 200 pgs. On a remote island off the coast of Scotland whose inhabitants believe in the occult, a young American woman investigates the murder of a woman who was thought to be a witch. Originally published at $21.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 12/01/1986. Reissue. Philip Warren, a handsome young jet-setting American writer--the classic innocent abroad--goes to Europe for a year to find himself. There he becomes involved with three women, representing three different kinds of temptation--but he also meets Jim Willard, a drug addict, alcoholic, and hustler. In this lighthearted, amusing, and autobiographical 1952 novel, Gore Vidal celebrates youth and freedom--and a less fraught time in American history--as he updates the classic tale of Paris and Helen. Originally published at $4.99 You save 69% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/01/2000. 259 pgs. A young American named Lucy Stark is the assistant to a bestselling novelist who has been researching a new book in Tuscany. When she receives news that he has died, she becomes convinced that his death was mysterious, and that his life wasn't completely straightforward, either. A wild fling with a local married man and the attentions of an inscrutable aristocratic neighbor increase the tension in Valerie Martin's modern-day addition to the tradition of the "innocent abroad" novel of Henry James and Edith Wharton. A 1999 New York Times Notable Book. Originally published at $12.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 02/01/1998. 352 pgs. Chloe Fowler is, by her own description, an unliberated woman. Happy as an American wife and mother, she travels with her husband, a doctor, to Iran. He is called home, however, and Chloe stays in Iran, surrounded by Iranian and foreign physicians and their wives. She is at first not unhappy to be without her husband, but then her room is thoroughly ransacked; a man dies in a cave; Chloe meets a group of strange Americans at a bar; and the director of the hospital is positive Chloe knows the whereabouts of another missing visiting American doctor. Originally published at $14.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 03/01/2001. 373 pgs. Gaby Stanton is fired from her professor job, and then hired as a salesperson by an outfit called Gone With the Wind, which supplies fantasy funerals for the rich. When she meets a man whose son has mysteriously died, the two realize that Gone With the Wind may be involved. At the same time, they find themselves falling in love. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 04/01/2001. Reissue. New York journalist Tim Nollinger and his fiancée, a Frenchwoman named Anne-Sophie d"Argel, are trying to recover a stolen illuminated manuscript that may have been acquired by Serge Cray, a film-maker in Paris, and his American wife Clara Holly. In this comedy of errors combined with French farce, Diane Johnson writes not exactly a sequel to her award-winning LE DIVORCE, but another comic novel about the same traditionally rich subject: hapless Americans in France. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. Originally published at $14.00 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 06/19/2003. Reprint. A film director who no longer feels inspired travels to Germany hoping to find renewal, and is given an improbable directing assignment that ends up changing his life. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. Originally published at $13.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Kensington Pub Corp. 10/01/2002. 384 pgs. Good vampire Lucian, from the book DEEP MIDNIGHT, is called upon to stop the actions of an evil vampiress named Louisa who has been terrorizing the citizens of Paris. Helping Lucian are skeptical American Tara Mason, and Brent Malone, a handsome man who may or may not have supernatural abilities. As the three hunt the dangerous and destructive Louisa, Tara and Brent fall in love. But will Louisa's wrath separate them forever? Originally published at $6.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 03/30/2005. Reprint. 278 pgs. David Markson is justly celebrated for his offbeat, highly experimental novels. GOING DOWN, however, is a more mainstream work. Originally published in 1970, it is set in the '60s in Mexico, where Markson lived for several years. The story is told through the consciousness of six characters, whose elliptical narratives overlap and occasionally contradict. The plot's main focus is two Americans--Fern and Steve--who encounter murder and chaos in an alien land. GOING DOWN has always been compared to the work of Malcolm Lowry, in terms of its themes and symbolism, but Markson has said that T.S. Eliot's influence on this novel was "inescapable." The book, however, is vintage Markson: allusive, witty, and filled with the word play that is part of everything he writes. Originally published at $15.00 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 09/01/2003. 352 pgs. First came LE DIVORCE, then LE MARIAGE, and now L'AFFAIRE. Diane Johnson places a group of wealthy skiers in a resort in the French Alps, where an avalanche buries a married couple, both of whom are in a coma. As relatives and friends gather at their bedsides, an American businesswoman named Amy Hawkins, who becomes involved in the situation when she befriends the young brother of one of the victims. The only American in a blizzard of les français, Amy finds that her assumptions about a lot of things--money, family, sex--are seriously challenged. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/2005. 213 pgs. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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Dalkey Archive Pr. 05/01/2005. 203 pgs. Originally published at $13.95 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 10/01/2005. 391 pgs. Set in the middle of the 19th century, this historical romance is the second in the Wallflowers series, concerning four young ladies who unite in their determination to find the perfect husband, even though all of them are considered less than perfect potential brides by the cream of English society. In this installment, bullying, somewhat stuffy, but surprisingly kindhearted Marcus Marsden, Earl of Westcliff, unwillingly finds himself unbearably attracted to Lillian Bowman, an American hoyden of the worst sort. Originally published at $7.50 You save 84% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 02/09/2006. 168 pgs. This debut work of literary fiction portrays the relationship between two American sisters living in 1967 Hong Kong and how the tumultuous events of that time eventually shatter their innocence. Kate, Frankie, and their mother make their home in Pok Fu Lam village while their father photographs the war in Vietnam for Time magazine. The girls’ mother practices extreme detachment, paints watercolors, and waits for their father to return, leaving a Chinese nanny, Ah Bing, to care for quiet, observant 12-year-old Kate and her more outgoing older sister, Frankie. When adventure-craving Frankie leads Kate away from Ah Bing and into the heart of a Red Guards demonstration, the resulting chain of events creates a rift between the sisters and inevitably leads to tragedy. Originally published at $13.00 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 09/06/2006. 258 pgs. Thomas Railles, a former CIA agent turned painter, lives in Southern France, apparently far removed from the turbulent forces of the world. But when his wife Florette is murdered, and the French government invites him to observe the interrogation of the four Moroccans accused of killing her, Railles finds himself drawn obsessively into the "sturm und drang" of troubling times. With the Iraq war and the threat of terrorism as a backdrop, National Book Award finalist Ward Just paints a searing picture of a man's personal life suddenly infected by the violence and injustice that is the global political reality. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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