This edition, based on the work's first book appearance (Methuen, 1903), illuminates its literary and cultural contexts, contains comprehensive annotation, and provides a detailed textual history.
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Years later, the envoys of some other defeated Indian towns visited Alexander to offer their submission. They were surprised to find him still in his armor and without anyone waiting in attendance upon him.
In 1924 he married Louise Bryant (b.1885-d.1936), widow of radical journalist John Reed (John Silas Reed, b.1887-d.1920), author of Ten Days That Shook the World and the only American buried in the Kremlin Wall. Bullitt.
Pogue, George G. Marshall, p. 165, differs. But Acheson is likely to have remembered well what he said and how Senator Vandenberg reacted. * German prisoners were held in the Soviet Union into the 1950s. Bevin may nevertheless have ...
... go back or forwards without the figure seeing him. Suddenly he felt threatened and exposed. The figure spoke. “Good heavens, Ambassador Vexx. What.
In The Ambassadors, Paul Richter shares the astonishing, true-life stories of four expeditionary diplomats who “do the hardest things in the hardest places.” The book describes how Ryan Crocker helped rebuild a shattered Afghan ...
... it's a comfort to have you here at last to say it to; though I don't know, after all, that I've really waited; I've told it to people I've met in the cars —the fact is, such a country as this ain't my kind of country anyway.
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 Tóibín, whose award-winning novel The Master depicted the inner life of James in the ...
This complex tale of self-discovery--considered by the author to be his best work--traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his...
Embedded in real events, the novel takes us on an unforgettable journey through the Congo, Germany, and Brooklyn as it examines one family’s passage through genocide and grief.
This volume traces the ambassadors' story from ancient Greece and Ashoka's empire in India to the European Enlightenment and the birth of the nation state. It provides an account of...
Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of "The Ambassadors," which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year.
He brought in Charles Ries, ambassador to Greece, as economic counselor; his wife, Marcie Ries, ambassador to Albania, as political-military counselor; Adam Ereli, ambassador to Bahrain, as the senior public affairs official.
This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition of The Ambassadors again includes the author's preface as well as the most significant variants of the three earlier editions of the novel published in James's lifetime.
Sent to Paris by a wealthy matron to retrieve her son, Strether becomes sidetracked by intriguing complications
Lambert Strether, a middle-aged, yet not broadly experienced, man from Woollett, Massachusetts, agrees to assume a mission for his wealthy fianc e: go to Paris and rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the clutches of a presumably wicked ...
It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated The Ambassadors by Henry James The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James.
The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR).
This complex tale of self-discovery -- considered by the author to be his best work -- traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the...