Toward the middle of this novel, one of the title characters is struck with the shock of gray hair now possessed by a man that he meets in an opera box.
Two semi-persistent images in this work are those of green-bound books, which serve to remind the narrator of his home, and yellow-bound books, which remind him of his youth in the work's main location. Toward the middle of this novel, one of the title characters is struck with the shock of gray hair now possessed by a man that he meets in an opera box. That opera box is held by Maria Gostrey, whom we meet on a ship bound for London, and that shock of gray hair is possessed by Chad Newsome, whom Lambert Strether has been sent to bring back to Woollett, Massachusetts from Paris. For ten points, name this 1903 novel of Henry James named for the agency exercised by Strether.
Two semi-persistent images in this work are those of green-bound books, which serve to remind the narrator of his home, and yellow-bound books, which remind him of his youth in the work's main location.
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