A pair of sophisticated European cousins descend on their staid New England relatives, unsettling the household. James's light comedy of transatlantic manners.
Books mentioned in The Europeans (3)
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “On a chair, beside her, lay a volume of Emerson’s Essays.”
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: “She had known nothing so delightful since the perusal of "Nicholas Nickleby."”
A Thousand and One Nights: “She possessed herself of a very obvious volume—one of the series of the _Arabian Nights_—and she brought it out into the portico and sat down with it in her lap.”
Books that mention The Europeans (2)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “the quality of excruciation in much of Henry James (for instance, The Europeans, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove)”
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag: “Same passage as The Wings of the Dove above.”