# 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: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-374-6
- Pages: 548
- Published: 2016-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

This complex tale of self-discovery -- considered by the author to be his best work -- traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home, Strether reaches unexpected conclusions.