The Ambassadors
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few novels capture the intoxicating collision of American innocence and European sophistication with such precision as The Ambassadors. Set against the glittering backdrop of turn-of-the-century Paris, Henry James's masterwork chronicles the journey of Lambert Strether — a middle-aged New Englander dispatched to France to retrieve his patron's wayward son, Chad Newsome — only to find himself seduced by the very world he was sent to resist. What begins as a simple diplomatic errand unravels into a profound meditation on freedom, duty, and the roads not taken. James constructs his narrative with the meticulous care of an architect, layering dialogue and social observation to reveal character in the subtlest of gestures. His celebrated late style — dense, circumlocutory, and endlessly rewarding — demands an active reader willing to inhabit the consciousness of a man awakening, perhaps too late, to the richness of life. This Franklin Library edition, illustrated by Mitchell Hooks, presents one of the great novels of the English language in a format befitting its stature, leaving one to wonder: what might Strether have become, had he arrived in Paris just a little sooner?
Author: Henry James
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few novels capture the intoxicating collision of American innocence and European sophistication with such precision as The Ambassadors. Set against the glittering backdrop of turn-of-the-century Paris, Henry James's masterwork chronicles the journey of Lambert Strether — a middle-aged New Englander dispatched to France to retrieve his patron's wayward son, Chad Newsome — only to find himself seduced by the very world he was sent to resist. What begins as a simple diplomatic errand unravels into a profound meditation on freedom, duty, and the roads not taken. James constructs his narrative with the meticulous care of an architect, layering dialogue and social observation to reveal character in the subtlest of gestures. His celebrated late style — dense, circumlocutory, and endlessly rewarding — demands an active reader willing to inhabit the consciousness of a man awakening, perhaps too late, to the richness of life. This Franklin Library edition, illustrated by Mitchell Hooks, presents one of the great novels of the English language in a format befitting its stature, leaving one to wonder: what might Strether have become, had he arrived in Paris just a little sooner?