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The Ambassadors

Henry James

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1903
Pages
Pages 530

An American envoy travels to Paris to drag a friend's grown son home from a supposedly ruinous love affair, and finds Parisian life so seductive that he ends up urging the young man to stay and seize what he can.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
The Ambassadors, Henry James

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