Patrick James

London-based American working on finance, strategy, and operations for a blue chip firm. Attempts at essays coming soon - this site is new.

Currently Reading:

Henry James, The American (1887): Mr. Christopher Newman, an American businessman having made a small fortune, moves to Paris and resolves to find a wife after buying some paintings from a young girl at the Louvre. Under the advice of compatriots whom he finds and befrends, he enjoys Europe on a grand tour for the summer, travelling for a while with a unitarian minister from Massachusetts. He encounters the aristocrat Madame le Cintré (Claire de Bellegarde) in Paris - friend of friend - a young widow. Attempts to make in-roads with her lead to a friendship with her brother, Monsieur de Bellegarde.