"The Ambassadors" is a classic of American literature, a coming-of-age novel set between the old and the new world: Chad Newsome is supposed to come home. However, when Lambert Strether tries to bring him back to Massachusetts, Paris is not the den of iniquity that Americans imagine, but the magnificent city of the Belle Époque. And the enchanting Madame de Vionnet, from whom he is to rescue Chad, has transformed the average American Chad into a cultured European. Strether finds himself torn between tradition and modernity, between the power of emotions and the obligations he has assumed. He must ask himself whether he will plunge Chad into misfortune if he actually carries out his mission. Michael Walter has provided a brilliant counterpart to this masterpiece.