This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the young man back to the family business, but he encounters unexpected complications.
Product Specifications
- The Ambassadors is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR).
- The third-person narrative is told exclusively from Strether's point of view.
- Lambert Strether, a middle-aged, yet not broadly experienced, man from Woollett, Massachusetts, agrees to assume a mission for his wealthy fiancée: go to Paris and rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the clutches of a presumably wicked woman.
- Length : 20 cm
- Width : 13 cm
- Height : 2 cm
