A classic romance set in New York between 1847 and 1862, from one of the principal American novelists of the nineteenth century. This story was filmed in 1998 and most notably in 1949 under the ti…
Lambert Strether undertakes a seemingly straightfoward ambassadorial task on behalf of his wealthy fiancee and benefactress Mrs. Newsome : to go to Europe and exhort her long-absent son Chad to ret…