The Ambassadors

This classic tale of the discovery of the charms of the Old World by differing American types, represents the finest flowering of the genre for which Henry James is most renowned and at ease. Full of humour, irony and delicate perception, the book matches superb character portrayal with a vivid sense of time and place.

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The Ambassadors

This classic tale of the discovery of the charms of the Old World by differing American types, represents the finest flowering of the genre for which Henry James is most renowned and at ease. Full of humour, irony and delicate perception, the book matches superb character portrayal with a vivid sense of time and place.

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The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

by Henry James
The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

by Henry James

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Overview

This classic tale of the discovery of the charms of the Old World by differing American types, represents the finest flowering of the genre for which Henry James is most renowned and at ease. Full of humour, irony and delicate perception, the book matches superb character portrayal with a vivid sense of time and place.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848705739
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, Limited
Publication date: 11/01/2014
Series: Wordsworth Classics
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 348
File size: 861 KB

About the Author

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship; The Master, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Brooklyn, winner of a Costa Book Award. Twice short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín is the Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Studies at Princeton University and lives in Dublin and New York.

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

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Table of Contents

Introduction7
Note on the Text31
Preface to the New York Edition33
The Ambassadors53
Notes513
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