کتاب The Ambassadors Original One of the final masterpieces from one of the worlds greatest authors Henry Jamess The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tibn A keenly observed tale of a mans awakening to life this dark comic novel follows Lewis Lambert Strether a middleaged widower on a mission to Europe to convince his fiances wayward son to forsake the pleasures of Paris and return to America Rich with fin de sicle detail The Ambassadors brims with finely drawn character portraits including one of the Masters most unforgettable heroinesthe beguiling Madame de Vionnet This was the novel that Henry James himself considered his finest and no one is better equipped to put it into literary and historical context than Colm Tibn whose awardwinning novel The Master depicted the inner life of James in the final years of the nineteenth century