A middle-aged American is sent to Paris to bring home a wealthy widow's wayward son, only to find himself seduced by the very European sophistication he was meant to rescue him from.
Books mentioned in The Ambassadors (1)
Lewis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac: “particularly the Lewis Lambert. It’s the name of a novel of Balzac’s.”
Books that mention The Ambassadors (1)
On James Baldwin by Colm Tóibín: “Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, for example, published in 1903, is set in a Paris that allows the middle-aged Lambert Strether to live as though for the first time”