James, Henry

The Ambassadors (The Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Beraud, Jean. Full-Leather. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2307091

433 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Color illustrations from paintings by Jean Beraud. "The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James. This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the young man back to the family business."

Price: $25.00