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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 enamo
Quick facts about The Ambassadors
- Title: The Ambassadors
- Author: Henry James
- First published: 1903
- Genre: man-woman relationships, fiction, romance
- OpenLibrary ID: OL276470W
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What is The Ambassadors about?
Chad Newsome has gone to Paris.
Who wrote The Ambassadors?
The Ambassadors was written by Henry James.
When was The Ambassadors published?
The Ambassadors was first published in 1903.
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