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قراءة كتاب The Ambassadors pdf

المؤلف : Henry James
عن الكتاب : قراءة كتاب The Ambassadors pdf تأليف Henry James pdf مجانا ... 2008م - 1443هـ The Ambassadors
Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of "The Ambassadors,"
which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review
(1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved
is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the
reader's benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted or "sunk," stiffly
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and saliently, in the centre of the current, almost perhaps to the obstruction
of traffic. Never can a composition of this sort have sprung straighter from
a dropped grain of suggestion, and never can that grain, developed,
overgrown and smothered, have yet lurked more in the mass as an
independent particle. The whole case, in fine, is in Lambert Strether's
irrepressible outbreak to little Bilham on the Sunday afternoon in Gloriani's
garden, the candour with which he yields, for his young friend's
enlightenment, to the charming admonition of that crisis. The idea of the
tale resides indeed in the very fact that an hour of such unprecedented ease
should have been felt by him AS a crisis, and he is at pains to express it for
us as neatly as we could desire. The remarks to which he thus gives
utterance contain the essence of "The Ambassadors," his fingers close,
before he has done, round the stem of the full-blown flower; which, after
that fashion, he continues officiously to present to us. "Live all you can; it's
a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long
as you have your life. .