Paris - late nineteenth century - Strether, ambassador sent from Massachusetts to rescue son - Chad, son and heir to a manufacturing fortune - Madame de Vionnet and her daughter - runaway son a better person from influence of Madam de Vionnet - additional ambassadors sent - Strether's evolution into a better person
For me Henry James is very hard to read. He can tell you a man crosses the street in 1000 words or more - I will say, for all the difficulty I had in reading this work, I must have understood what I was reading because I scored 90% on the spark notes test.
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