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The Ambassadors: An Authoritative Text, the Author on the Novel, Criticism
(Paperback, 1994)
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Author: Henry James
Lambert Strether is dispatched to Paris by the widowed Mrs. Newsome--his fiancée--to bring back her ...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0393963144
ISBN-13: 9780393963144
Feb 1994
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition: 2
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Lambert Strether is dispatched to Paris by the widowed Mrs. Newsome--his fiancée--to bring back her son Chadwick. It is rumored that Chad has fallen under the spell of a Frenchwoman of dubious reputation, and his mother wants him to return to take over the running of the Newsome Mills, in Massachusetts. Once in Paris, Strether undergoes a personality change. Not only does he advise Chad to remain there with his lover--the charming Mme. de Vionnet--but he comes perilously close to succumbing to the city's magic himself. The ending is both unexpected and deeply ironic; Strether's situation illustrates James's lifelong preoccupation with the differences in culture, morality, and the concept of the good life in a city like Paris vs. a New England mill town. It is, of course, no secret where the author's sympathies lie. As the aging Strether expresses it in a word of advice to a younger character: "Live all you can....Don't miss things out of stupidity. Live!" James considered this novel to be his masterpiece, and--despite its extreme length, slowness, and quiet absence of action or real suspense--critical opinion generally agrees with him.
| Details | | Series: | Norton Critical Editions Series |
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend: yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."
Industry Reviews
'If one starts selecting from James there is no end; it is like choosing an Alp; he dominates the Anglo-American scene for fifty years. The 'Ambassadors; is one of his few novels in which European values are clearly show as preferable to American....Besides being his supreme offering to Paris, his renunciation of Puritian America, it is a book in which he considered the form most completely weeded to the content."
"the Modern Movement" - Cyril Connolly
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