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Fiction · Black comedy

The Ambassadors

Henry James
1903 · 518 pages

Sent to Paris to pry a young American away from a Frenchwoman, a middle-aged emissary looks around and tells a young painter to live all he can. James called it his best novel.

★ 7.1