In his excellent new book, Henry James Comes Home ... Lambert Strether in The Ambassadors hems and haws — it’s “a small, trivial, rather ridiculous object of the commonest domestic use ...

To read a paragraph by Henry James — a single one can sprawl across ... in just three consecutive years, following “The Ambassadors” in 1902 and “The Wings of the Dove” in 1903.

Some time ago, I fell into conversation with a colleague about what we had been reading lately, and the person suggested that I absolutely must give Henry James’s “The Ambassadors” a try.

Henry James Comes Home arrives as a late companion ... came to be used in James’s greatest novels, such as The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove. In these works, Brooks wrote, “James ...

It’s an adaptation of Henry James ‘The Ambassadors’ which is set in Paris. I’d like to shoot in France. I don’t think I would feel at ease shooting in the U.S., it’s another way of ...

In 1904 Henry James’s agent negotiated with the American publisher ... Take this description (from the preface to The Ambassadors) of the way a story emerges into life, which dances adverbially around ...

Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival with the engaging Maria Gostrey provides him with much ...

long-time friend and finally enemy of Henry James, once wrote, “For generations to come a select type of reader will brighten appreciatively to ‘The Spoils of Poynton,’ ‘The Ambassadors, ...