num_pages: 428
description: Novel by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. The Ambassadors is a dark comedy that follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of his widowed fiancée's supposedly wayward son.
language: English
title: The Ambassadors
titlecomplete: The Ambassadors
characters: Chadwick Newsome, Maria Gostrey, Waymarsh, Marie de Vionnet, Lambert Strether
genres: Fiction, France, American, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 12296
places: Paris, France
publisher: Dodo Press