num_pages: 512
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Ambassadors
titlecomplete: The Ambassadors
characters: Lambert Strether, Chadwick Newsome, Maria Gostrey, Waymarsh, Marie de Vionnet
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, France, Classic Literature, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 12296
places: France, Paris
publisher: Oxford University Press