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The ambassadors / Henry James ; edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Henry, 1843-1916.
- Series:
- World's classics.
- World's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (513 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the 'vast bright Babylon' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the text; Further reading; Chronology of Henry James; Preface; THE AMBASSADORS; Notes; Selected variant readings
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1985.
- Description based on print version record and publisher information.
- Includes bibliographical notes.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-192139-4
- 0-19-159350-8
- OCLC:
- 714569727
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