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Horizon ClassicsPublished 1877

The American

by Henry James

Pages

272

Difficulty

Accessible

Tone

Refined

Chapters

30

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Full public-domain text on Prospect Avenue Books, split into 30 HTML chapters for comfortable reading and search indexing. Optional PDFs remain on Project Gutenberg.

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter Ii
  3. Chapter Iii
  4. Chapter Iv
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter Vi
  7. Chapter Vii
  8. Chapter Viii
  9. Chapter Ix
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter Xi
  12. Chapter Xii
  13. Chapter Xiii
  14. Chapter Xiv
  15. Chapter Xv
  16. Chapter Xvi
  17. Chapter Xvii
  18. Chapter Xviii
  19. Chapter Xix
  20. Chapter Xx
  21. Chapter Xxi
  22. Chapter Xxii
  23. Chapter Xxiii
  24. Chapter Xxiv
  25. Chapter Xxv
  26. Chapter Xxvi
  27. Chapter Xxvii
  28. Chapter Xxviii
  29. Chapter Xxix
  30. Chapter Xxx
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