description: The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fiancée's supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the young man back to the family business, but he encounters unexpected complications. The third-person narrative is told exclusively from Strether's point of view.
language: English
title: The Ambassadors
titlecomplete: The Ambassadors
characters: Waymarsh, Marie de Vionnet, Chadwick Newsome, Lambert Strether, Maria Gostrey
genres: Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, American, Novels, Fiction, Classics, France, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 12293
places: France, Paris
publisher: Penguin Books