The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to \'live well\', Henry James\'s The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics.
Strether\'s mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under.
Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs Newsome sends her \'ambassador\' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him.
The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to \'live well\', Henry James\'s The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics