The Ambassadors

Author: Henry James

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Title: The Ambassadors

Author: Henry James

Description: Lambert Strether travels to Paris to bring a young American home and ends up questioning his own life instead. James considered it his finest novel, a subtle late work about seeing too late what you missed.

Pages: 282

Size: 2.42 MB

Format: PDF

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