An edition of The Ambassadors (1903)

The ambassadors.

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An edition of The Ambassadors (1903)

The ambassadors.

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Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely. Chad's mother lives in Woollett, Mass., and wants her son to return to run the family business. Mrs. Newsome is an invalid and cannot go to Paris to fetch her son herself, so she employs Lambert Strether and Sarah Pocock to return Chad to Massachusetts. Sarah has been to Paris before and is aware of its attractiveness, so her determination to succeed in this task is fixed and uncompromising. Strether is of later middle age, however, and inspired by the fairytale of a beautiful life in Europe. Mrs. Newsome has promised to marry Strether if he can bring Chad home. Strether is completely enamored by the Parisian character and its enchantments and has a difficult time completing his mission. The drama of reestablishing Chad in business in America and of coming to terms with the mythological romance of France leaves the reader unbalanced, trying to recover equilibrium in the real world. Those involved with Chad's rescue are compelled to recognize the deep intimacies of personal attachment and the accepted proprieties of direct consequence. The success and failures of such an undertaking are unpredictable. The result of every character's attempt to steer Chad rightly is a strange conglomeration of role reversal, fantasy, and truth.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
391

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The ambassadors
2012, Transatlantic
in English
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The Ambassadors
October 1998, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors
1965, W. Morrow
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors
The ambassadors
1964, Scribner
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors
The ambassadors
1964, Scribner
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors.
The ambassadors.
1960, Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: Ambassadors
Ambassadors
1960, Penguin Publishing Group, Signet Classics
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors
The ambassadors
1960, A Signet Book
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors
The ambassadors
1948, Dent
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors
The ambassadors
1948, Harper
in English
Cover of: The ambassadors
The ambassadors
1903, Methuen
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston
Series
Riverside editions A39
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.J234 Amb12, PS2116.A5 Amb12, PZ3.J234Amb 12

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 391 p.
Number of pages
391

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5812149M
Internet Archive
ambassadors0000jame_a0y4
LCCN
60051326
OCLC/WorldCat
2909252
Library Thing
16999

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