The Ambassadors

Henry James's great late novel of Europe, self-discovery, missed chances, and the cost of a truly examined life.

At a glance The Ambassadors by Henry James is one of the great novels of inward change and late… Sent from Massachusetts to Paris on a practical mission, Lambert Strether is supposed to… Instead, he finds himself transformed by the very world he was meant to resist. What begins as a social errand becomes a subtle, searching novel about freedom, desire…

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