The Ambassadors
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turn of the twentieth century, a thoroughly proper New Englander named Lewis Lambert Strether arrives in the glittering, morally ambiguous world of Paris on a mission — to retrieve his wealthy patron's wayward son, Chad Newsome, from what is assumed to be a scandalous entanglement — only to find himself utterly seduced by the very life he was sent to condemn. Henry James's The Ambassadors, first published in 1903 and widely considered his own favourite among his novels, is a masterwork of psychological realism that chronicles one man's late-awakening consciousness with breathtaking subtlety and precision. James constructs the narrative almost entirely from within Strether's richly layered point of view, deploying his famously intricate, serpentine prose to illuminate the tensions between Old World sophistication and New World puritanism, duty and desire, innocence and experience. The novel argues, with devastating elegance, that the cost of a life lived without full awareness is irretrievably high — a truth Strether himself articulates in the book's most celebrated passage. A cornerstone of the modernist canon, The Ambassadors rewards the attentive reader with revelations that accumulate long after the final page is turned.
Author: Henry James
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turn of the twentieth century, a thoroughly proper New Englander named Lewis Lambert Strether arrives in the glittering, morally ambiguous world of Paris on a mission — to retrieve his wealthy patron's wayward son, Chad Newsome, from what is assumed to be a scandalous entanglement — only to find himself utterly seduced by the very life he was sent to condemn. Henry James's The Ambassadors, first published in 1903 and widely considered his own favourite among his novels, is a masterwork of psychological realism that chronicles one man's late-awakening consciousness with breathtaking subtlety and precision. James constructs the narrative almost entirely from within Strether's richly layered point of view, deploying his famously intricate, serpentine prose to illuminate the tensions between Old World sophistication and New World puritanism, duty and desire, innocence and experience. The novel argues, with devastating elegance, that the cost of a life lived without full awareness is irretrievably high — a truth Strether himself articulates in the book's most celebrated passage. A cornerstone of the modernist canon, The Ambassadors rewards the attentive reader with revelations that accumulate long after the final page is turned.