THE AMBASSADORS Please note that the "" is not translated and remains as it is in the original text. All other Chinese content has been translated into English.

Author: HENRYJAMES
Publisher: PENGUIN
Publication Date: 1994-12-01
Features: James regarded The Ambassadors, his portrait of an American in Paris, as ‘frankly, quite the best, “all round” of my productions’. Strether has been despatched by the resourceful Mrs. Nesome as an envoy to bring back his son Chad, who has lingered too long in Europe and must be rescued from the bohemian dissipation of Paris. It is believed that Chad is entangled in an unsuitable love affair, and if Strether is successful in persuading the prodigal son to return, his reward will be Mrs. Newome's hand in marriage. This is the innocent spur in a marvellous novel in marriage. This is the innocent spur in a marvellous novel in which Paris, and a love affair discovered, come tenderly to symbolize that Strether, James's reticent middle-aged hero, realizes he has missed.
Author Bio: HENRY JAMES (1843-1916). American novelist, playwright, essayist, and critic, James remains one of the most influential of the literary figures who were writing at the turn of the century. Born in New York of both Irish and Scottish ancestry, Henry James was the second of the five children of Sir Edward. His father held strong views on how children should be brought up, and Henry James, along with his brother, was tutored privately at home until 1885, and then was intermittently educated in Geneva, Paris, Boulogne, and Bonn. In 1862 he attended Harvard Law School but left after only a year. Encouraged by his friend and fellow-writer William Dean Howells, he started to write articles and reviews for various journals. The Ambassadors (1903) was first published in twelve monthly installments in the North American Review. It is one of James’s final three novels and although it was by his own mission his favorite, it has sharply divided critics in their interpretations of it. Readers may also find the following books of interest: A. Berland, Culture and Conduct in the Novels of Henry James (1981); Leon Edel, The Critical Heritage (1986); Fred Kaplan, Henry James; The Great Tradition (1946); Fred Kaplan, Henry James; The Great Tradition (1948); F. O. Matthiessen and K. B. Murdock, The Notebooks of Henry James (1981); and Tony Tanner, Henry James; The Writer and His Work (1989).