The Ambassadors.: With the paintings Jean Béraud
de James, Henry
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fine Condition
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Definitive edition, with the author's final revisions. Printed and bound exclusively for subscribers to the Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. Bound in the publisher's original red composition leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Four raised bands on the spine. Decorations stamped in gilt on the covers and spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers.
Sinopsis
Chad Newsome has gone to Paris. He is charmed by Old World fascinations and caught up in the leisurely craft and bohemian direction of European worldliness. An older woman of rank and adventurous but subtle skill, Madame de Vionnet, strokes his ego and does her best to keep Chad in Paris indefinitely. Chad's mother lives in Woollett, Mass., and wants her son to return to run the family business. Mrs. Newsome is an invalid and cannot go to Paris to fetch her son herself, so she employs Lambert Strether and Sarah Pocock to return Chad to Massachusetts. Sarah has been to Paris before and is aware of its attractiveness, so her determination to succeed in this task is fixed and uncompromising. Strether is of later middle age, however, and inspired by the fairytale of a beautiful life in Europe. Mrs. Newsome has promised to marry Strether if he can bring Chad home. Strether is completely enamored by the Parisian character and its enchantments and has a difficult time completing his mission. The drama of reestablishing Chad in business in America and of coming to terms with the mythological romance of France leaves the reader unbalanced, trying to recover equilibrium in the real world. Those involved with Chad's rescue are compelled to recognize the deep intimacies of personal attachment and the accepted proprieties of direct consequence. The success and failures of such an undertaking are unpredictable. The result of every character's attempt to steer Chad rightly is a strange conglomeration of role reversal, fantasy, and truth.
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- James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 9005780
- Título
- The Ambassadors.
- Autor
- James, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine Condition
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Franklin Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Franklin Center
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- leather; American Literature
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
