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The Ambassadors: Volume II [This volume only!]
de James, Henry
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno/very good
- Librería
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1964. New York Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. VOLUME TWO ONLY! Gilt stamped black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has soil to bottom rear board, mild edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with foxing to top edge of block. DJ has sun to spine, toning, edgewear that includes some small tears, rubbing, front flap price clipped. This is a 1964 reissue of the New York edition.
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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- Librería
- Common Crow Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- B59117
- Título
- The Ambassadors: Volume II [This volume only!]
- Autor
- James, Henry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- New York Edition
- Editorial
- Charles Scriber's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1964
- Palabras clave
- Literature
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- Cloth
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- Price Clipped
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
