Preço Livro - The Castle (Oxford World Classics)

Lambert Strether, a Mild Middle-aged American Of no Particular Achievements, Is Dispatched To Paris From The Manufacturing Empire Of Woollett, Massachusetts. The Mission Conferred On Him By His August Patron, Mrs Newsome, Is To Discover What, Or Who, Is Keeping Her Son Chad In The Notorious City Of Pleasure, And To Bring Him Home. But Strether Finds Chad Transformed By The Influence Of a Remarkable Woman; And as The Parisian Spring Advances, He Himself Succumbs To The Allure Of The 'vast Bright

Lambert Strether, a Mild Middle-aged American Of no Particular Achievements, Is Dispatched To Paris From The Manufacturing Empire Of Woollett, Massachusetts. The Mission Conferred On Him By His August Patron, Mrs Newsome, Is To Discover What, Or Who, Is Keeping Her Son Chad In The Notorious City Of Pleasure, And To Bring Him Home. But Strether Finds Chad Transformed By The Influence Of a Remarkable Woman; And as The Parisian Spring Advances, He Himself Succumbs To The Allure Of The 'vast Bright

A Wealthy American Man Of Business Descends On Europe In Search Of a Wife To Make His Fortune Complete. His Bid For Claire de Cintre Hand Receives An Icy Welcome From The Heads Of Her Aristocratic Family. Can They Stomach His Manners For The Sake Of His Dollars? Out Of This Classic Collision Between The Old World And The New, James Weaves a Fable Of Thwarted Desire That Shifts Between Comedy, Tragedy, Romance And Melodrama a Fable Which In The Later Version Printed Here Takes On Some Of The Subt