An international episode
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | James, Henry, 1843-1916 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T10:02:15Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T10:02:15Z |
| dc.date.created | 1878 |
| dc.date.issued | 1996-02-23 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3149 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/3149 |
| dc.description.abstract | First published in 1878. |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2091 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Short stories, American -- 19th century |
| dc.title | An international episode |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 1037578 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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An International Episode by Henry James PART I Four years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the hotels, and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their course through Broadway. The midsummer aspect of New York is not, perhaps, the most favorable one; still, it is not without its picturesque and even brilliant side. Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advanced—looking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high-colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble facades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded . . .
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