
Ambassadors
When Lambert Strether of Woollett, Massachusetts, is dispatched to Europe by his wealthy fiancée to fetch her son, Chad, home from Paris, the middle-aged innocent is impressed by the young man’s sophistication, the delights of Paris, and Chad’s charming friend, the married Marie de Vionnet. Strether is so taken with European culture that he begins to question the manner in which he’s lived his own...
When Lambert Strether of Woollett, Massachusetts, is dispatched to Europe by his wealthy fiancée to fetch her son, Chad, home from Paris, the middle-aged innocent is impressed by the young man’s sophistication, the delights of Paris, and Chad’s charming friend, the married Marie de Vionnet. Strether is so taken with European culture that he begins to question the manner in which he’s lived his own...