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How Henry James Invented Modern Fiction with The Ambassadors (1903)

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How Henry James Invented Modern Fiction with The Ambassadors (1903)

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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At first blush Henry James’s The Ambassadors (1903) must seem an unlikely candidate for the honor of Great American Novel. For a start, none of this story takes place in the United States. The characters, for their part, act in atypical ways for Yanks, engaging again and again in un-American activities, albeit different from those that gave agita to Col…

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