The Ambassadors

LambertStrether,amildmiddle-agedAmericanofnoparticularachievements,isdispatchedtoParisfromthemanufacturingempireofWoollett,Massachusetts.Themissionconferredonhimbyhisaugustpatron,MrsNewsome,istodiscoverwhat,orwho,iskeepinghersonChadinthenotoriouscityofpleasure,andtobringhimhome.ButStretherfindsChadtransformedbytheinfl...