In the second novel of Jamesâs celebrated late period, American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs Newsome, his fiancĂ©e, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man and becomes introduced to a free and unconventional style of life that soon intoxicates him. His views begin to change; the morality of Woollett, his hometown, becomes foreign, and the âambassadorâ loses sight of his mission⊠Part tragedy, part comedy, The Ambassadors is a rewarding portrait about one manâs late awakening.