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This is definitely one I'll need to read again. It is so full of humor that I kept imagining P. G. Wodehouse crafting it. It's sad, though.
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THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel many critics find James' finest.
EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell of Paris. . ...more
THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel many critics find James' finest.
EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell of Paris. . ...more
Thoroughly enjoyable and slowly enveloping - what began as somewhat tedious for me gradually drew me in and I found myself entwined in the characters' lives. James writes so eloquently about relationships and human perception, and while he can come across as unnecessarily wordy, I have learned to appreciate his genius. While not as absorbing as Portrait of a Lady, I found this book surprising and rewarding.
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