Foto de archivo: la portada puede ser diferente
The Ambassadors
de James, Henry
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1853260347
- ISBN 13
- 9781853260346
- Librería
-
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Classics, 1993. Reprint . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 370, (3) pp. The lightest of rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
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.
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Persephone's Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 016038
- Título
- The Ambassadors
- Autor
- James, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Reprint
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1853260347
- ISBN 13
- 9781853260346
- Editorial
- Wordsworth Classics
- Lugar de publicación
- Ware, Hertfordshire
- Fecha de publicación
- 1993
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Palabras clave
- Literature
Términos de venta
Persephone's Books
We guarantee all material unconditionally. You may return any material within 30 days for a full refund, no questions asked.
Payment: We accept credit cards (VISA, Mastercard, American Express),personal cheques (payable to "Persephone's Books"), money orders, or PayPal. Please don't tempt Fate by sending cash.
Sobre el vendedor
Persephone's Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Gastonia, North Carolina
Sobre Persephone's Books
We are an Internet-based retailer specializing in printed and recorded media.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
