The Ambassadors (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: c. 1900
- Setting: Paris, France
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Newsome, Chadwick “Chad” Newsome, Lambert Strether, Maria Gostrey, Comtesse de Vionnet, Mrs. Pocock, Mamie Pocock
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Values, Mothers, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Paris, Ethics, Aristocracy or aristocrats
- Locales: Paris, France, England
The Story:
Lambert Strether was engaged to marry Mrs. Newsome, a widow. Mrs. Newsome had a son, Chadwick, whom she wanted to return home from Paris and take over the family business in Woollett, Massachusetts. She was especially concerned for his future after she had heard that he was seriously involved with a Frenchwoman. In her anxiety, she asked Strether to go to Paris and persuade her son to return to the respectable life she had planned for him. Strether did not look forward to his task, for Chadwick had ignored all of his mother’s written requests to return home....
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