Lambert Strether, a widowed editor from Woollett, Massachusetts, is dispatched by the wealthy Mrs. Newsome, his intended, to rescue her son Chad from Paris and a supposed entanglement. Instead Strether finds Chad transformed, meets the gracious Madame de Vionnet and begins to wonder whether he himself has failed to live. This edition includes James’s preface.
The 1903 novel James judged the best of all his productions, a late masterpiece of perception and second chances. Download the free EPUB.