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The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

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The Ambassadors

by James, Henry

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ISBN 10
0451519892
ISBN 13
9780451519894
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Mildly worn, mainly at the corners and edges. One spine crease. 384 pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Fourteenth printing, so produced much more recently than the 1979 date given on the copyright page. Originally published on 1903.

Synopsis

Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely. Chad's mother lives in Woollett, Mass., and wants her son to return to run the family business. Mrs. Newsome is an invalid and cannot go to Paris to fetch her son herself, so she employs Lambert Strether and Sarah Pocock to return Chad to Massachusetts. Sarah has been to Paris before and is aware of its attractiveness, so her determination to succeed in this task is fixed and uncompromising. Strether is of later middle age, however, and inspired by the fairytale of a beautiful life in Europe. Mrs. Newsome has promised to marry Strether if he can bring Chad home. Strether is completely enamored by the Parisian character and its enchantments and has a difficult time completing his mission. The drama of reestablishing Chad in business in America and of coming to terms with the mythological romance of France leaves the reader unbalanced, trying to recover equilibrium in the real world. Those involved with Chad's rescue are compelled to recognize the deep intimacies of personal attachment and the accepted proprieties of direct consequence. The success and failures of such an undertaking are unpredictable. The result of every character's attempt to steer Chad rightly is a strange conglomeration of role reversal, fantasy, and truth.

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Bookseller
Turtleman Used Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
ST00821
Title
The Ambassadors
Author
James, Henry
Book Condition
Used - Good+
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0451519892
ISBN 13
9780451519894
Publisher
Signet Classic
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1979
Pages
384
Size
10.5 cm x 17.8 cm x 1.9 cm
Bookseller catalogs
Classics; Literary Fiction;

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