Early on in this novel we learn that the central character's first and middle names form the title of a particularly bad Balzac novel. Other figures in this novel's twelve books include the conscientious lawyer from Milrose, Connecticut, Mr. Waymarsh, and the talkative London resident with whom the central character flirts, Maria Gostrey. When that central character fails in his mission, Sarah Pocock is sent, but even she cannot convince her brother to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. That is because her brother is involved with the comtesse de Vionnet. By the end Lambert Strether tells Chad Newsome to live his own life in, FTP, what Henry James novel.
Early on in this novel we learn that the central character's first and middle names form the title of a particularly bad Balzac novel. Other figures in this novel's twelve books include the conscientious lawyer from Milrose, Connecticut, Mr. Waymarsh, and the talkative London resident with whom the central character flirts, Maria Gostrey. When that central character fails in his mission, Sarah Pocock is sent, but even she cannot convince her brother to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. That is because her brother is involved with the comtesse de Vionnet. By the end Lambert Strether tells Chad Newsome to live his own life in, FTP, what Henry James novel.
Early on in this novel we learn that the central character's first and middle names form the title of a particularly bad Balzac novel.
The Ambassadors