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Live all you can; it’s a\n mistake not to.”\n Worried that her son, Chad, may have succumbed to the charms of the\n alluring city of Paris, and the mysterious Madam de Vionnet, Mrs Newsome\n sends her ‘ambassador’ Lambert Strether to Paris to bring him back. However,\n Strether himself falls under the spell of Paris, and finds Chad a rather\n refined man.\n Over time, Mrs Newsome is convinced that she should send another\n ‘ambassador’ to confront the two men.\n A compelling story about Strether, his journey and its unexpected\n conclusion, The Ambassadors is a novel teeming with sensitive characters,\n lost youth, and people caught in the frenzied pace of life.\n Woven around James’ favourite theme - the clash of American innocence and\n the European experience - The Ambassadors, considered Henry James’ finest\n work, is a searing portrait of a man’s awakening. Published in 1903, it still\n remains a timeless classic.
One of the key figures of nineteenth-century realism, Henry James brought new techniques to the world of British fiction and gave the world some unforgettable tales. An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his own lifetime.
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