“[…] an eyebrow which, if ladies wrote sonnets to those of their lovers, might have been made the subject of such a piece of verse - and a light moustache that flourished upwards as if blown that way by the breath of a constant smile”

* ‘The Europeans’ by Henry James, is described as “essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England’ by Wikipedia user Rmackenzie on August 18, 2005, and as “[…] an early example of James’s lifelong project of internationalizing the novel and his prescient anticipation of what now is a familiar world of permeable borders and pluralized identities,” by Andrew Taylor, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh circa 2008. It follows Baroness Eugenia Münster and Felix Young—the European siblings—as they travel to Boston, Massachusetts to try to bag their cousins. I see this entire story as a competition between Eugenia and Felix to see who can basically fxck ehm *clears throat* marry one of their American cousins first so that they can attain an American fortune. One of them wins, but I won’t tell you who! This is my second time reading something written by Henry James, and it’s like they say 2nd times the charm! I really liked this one. I loved how James describe the different settings of Germany and Boston, and how every character was painted so vividly I could picture them in front of me. Henry James is a pretty good writer and if he ever decides to make a career out of it, I feel like he could do very well for himself.