The Ambassadors

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Gustave Caillebotte, Édouard Manet and Camille Pissarro. A middle-aged New Englander is sent to Paris to retrieve a young man from an unsuitable attachment, and finds that the young man is right. James thought it his best book. The scene in the garden where Strether tells a young man to live all he can is the closest James ever came to speaking ...