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The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis
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- Paperback 528 Pages
- Edition: Reprint
- ISBN-10: 0140432337
- ISBN-13: 9780140432336
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pub date: Mar 03, 1987
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 13 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding and Others
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Avendo amato molto "Portrait of a Lady", erano anni che volevo leggere questo libro; sono un po' pentita di averlo letto in inglese, perché è un testo raffinato e complicato, e l'ostinazione per la lingua originale mi è costata tempo e fatica (si vede da quanto tempo ci ho messo a finirlo). Lo rileg ... Continue
Avendo amato molto "Portrait of a Lady", erano anni che volevo leggere questo libro; sono un po' pentita di averlo letto in inglese, perché è un testo raffinato e complicato, e l'ostinazione per la lingua originale mi è costata tempo e fatica (si vede da quanto tempo ci ho messo a finirlo). Lo rileggerò sicuramente durante una prossima vacanza.