The Ambassadors
by Henry James
“In the City of Light, the rescuer is the one who gets lost.”
When Lambert Strether arrives in Paris to rescue a wayward heir from the city's seductive clutches, he finds himself ensnared by the very beauty and sophistication he was sent to suppress. This masterwork of psychological nuance explores the tension between duty and desire as an older man discovers that life’s greatest lessons often come far too late.
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