The Ambassadors (Annotated)

The Ambassadors (1903) is one of Henry James's late masterpieces, a subtle comedy of perception in which Lambert Strether is sent from Woollett, Massachusetts, to Paris to retrieve the supposedly wayward Chad Newsome. Instead, Strether encounters a Europe of nuance, charm, and moral ambiguity. Written in James's famously intricate late style, the novel transforms social observation into psychologi...