The Ambassadors

Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of _The North American Review_ (1903) and was published as a whole th...

if, oppressively—indeed absurdly—he was responsible for what they had now thrown up to the surface. It was—through something ancient and cold in it—what he would have called the...

It wasn’t the first time Strether had sat alone in the great dim church—still less was it the first of his giving himself up, so far as conditions permitted, to its beneficent a...