TY - BOOK AU - Waller,Leslie TI - The American: a novel AV - PZ3.W1557PS3545.A565 Am U1 - 813.54 PY - 1970///] CY - New York PB - Putnam KW - Drama KW - Comedy N2 - The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman ER -