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Sent by his fiancée to seek her son who has run away with an entrancing Parisian woman, Lambert Strether finds himself nearly as bewitched by the culture and women of Europe as his would-be son-in-law. Strether gets chased or dragged across provincial France by a slew of influences intent either on drawing the pair of bachelors home to Boston or showing him the world, and winds up testing his patience along with his own illusions.
2) The American
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A self-made American goes to Europe to enjoy his fortune and becomes engaged to a French widow from a noble family. Depicts the contrast between American and European culture.
3) Amerykanin
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Historia podrozy do Europy amerykanskiego biznesmena Christophera Newmana. Zakochuje sie on w mlodej wdowie Claire de Bellegarde. Jej arystokratyczna paryska rodzina, zszokowana manierami biznesmena, odrzuca oswiadczyny. Gdy Newman odkrywa tajemnice rodziny de Bellegarde, staje przed dylematem moralnym: czy wyjawic ja na swiatlo dzienne, dajac upust zemscie, czy zachowac dla siebie? Amerykanin to polaczenie romansu, komedii, dramatu spolecznego i...
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Library of America volume 215
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"This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners.
"The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean Howells, who told of having given advice to a friend...
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