{"product_id":"2026100011987-secondhand-the-europeans","title":"The Europeans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen two cosmopolitan Europeans — the charming, manipulative Baroness Eugenia and her artist brother Felix — arrive on the doorstep of their strait-laced New England cousins, the collision of Old World sophistication with Puritan American values ignites a quietly devastating comedy of manners. Set in the 1840s just outside Boston, Henry James's The Europeans chronicles the sparkling yet uneasy encounter between two utterly different worlds, as Eugenia schemes for a wealthy marriage and Felix pursues love with an earnestness that disarms even the most guarded of hearts.\n\nJames, working at the height of his early novelistic powers, constructs a deceptively light narrative that conceals sharp, incisive observations about identity, cultural inheritance, and the unspoken codes that govern social life on both sides of the Atlantic. His prose is precise and luminous, animating each character with psychological depth through gesture and dialogue rather than direct exposition. First published in 1878, The Europeans stands as a masterful precursor to the great international novels that would define his later career — and its central question, whether the European capacity for artifice can ever be reconciled with American moral earnestness, lingers long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51103149293787,"sku":"2026100011987-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/47d21123-2d07-4cfa-8ad1-ac30a57c71f1.png?v=1794449313","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011987-secondhand-the-europeans","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}