# The Ambassadors

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- Book: [The Ambassadors](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors) ([The Ambassadors.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-ambassadors.md))
- Authors: [Henry James](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9953-854-6
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2008-08-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether find