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        The Ambassadors


        setting

        Paris, France

        time

        Late 1800s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1903

        page count

        457

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Strether, Chad, Mdm Vionnet, Ms Gostrey, Sarah

        Rip's impressions

        No action, all character description, and thought moves the plot slowly and painfully forward.

        first line

        Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconnected.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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