The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199538549 ISBN 13: 9780199538546

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

The second of James's three late masterpieces, was, in its author's opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions".

Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs. Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the 'vast bright Babylon' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet.

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Henry James (1843-1916), son of Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject
shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199538549
• ISBN 13: 9780199538546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Butler Christopher