A review by caomhghin
The Ambassadors by Henry James

5.0

Yes, a tour de force, a fascinating six months in the mind of an unfascinating man. Indirection and misdirection play through a sometimes opaque language that can suddenly become pellucid. In some ways it is a tragic story of a man (Strether) who has a slowly evolving epiphany he only partly understands and a realisation that for most of his life he has been stifled. At the end all is clear yet he returns to stifling Woollet.