Dec 30, 2009

The Ambassadors | The Ambassadors

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Author: Henry James
First Published: 1903
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: c. 1900
Setting: Paris, France
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

Characters Discussed

Lambert Strether, the chief ambassador of Mrs. Newsome, his betrothed. Strether is sent to summon Mrs. Newsome’s son Chad back from Paris to the family business in Wollett, Massachusetts. The fifty-five-year-old editor of a review, Strether has all the tact and diplomacy necessary to accomplish his task, but his sensitivity will not allow him either to complete it or to take advantage of Chad’s situation to gain his own ends. He sees Chad as immeasurably better off in Paris and himself as somehow changed and strengthened by his sojourn abroad, though he...

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The Ambassadors | The Ambassadors

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Characters Discussed

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