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The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
The Ambassadors - Penguin Classics
Author: Henry James
An incomparable Henry James’s novel in a new edition Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. The Ambassadors is a subtle exploration of American responses to Europe in which a Boston blueblood’s son becomes involved with an unsuitable woman.
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ISBN-13: 9780141441320
ISBN-10: 0141441321
Publication Date: 6/24/2008
Pages: 544
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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A young man, Chad, has been traveling Europe ending up in Paris, France. His family wants him home to the States as they fear France has corrupted him.


As you see above the rating for this is a one star and a DNF(Did Not Finish). This is a first for me. I really tried to get into The Ambassadors and to understand it. I got to about 200 pages in and just could not continue. Never have read a book like this where the words that are used I understand on their own but when they are combined with others I know do not comprehend them together.


I do not know if it is just the way Henry James writes since this the first I have read by him but I will not be returning to this book again.


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