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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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Book Description
Complex tale of self-discovery traces the path of an aging idealist from America to Paris， where his intentions of persuading his young charge to return home take an unexpected turn.