The Unnamed Embarrassing Object
Early in The Ambassadors, Strether tells Maria Gostrey that the Newsome family has made its entire fortune by manufacturing a tiny, everyday object that's too dumb to even mention. But when Maria a...
Ambassadors
As the title might suggest, the symbol of the ambassador is central to this story. And the reason it's so important is that this book is, among other things, really interested in language, communic...
Telegrams
These blue little notes are basically how people texted each other back in the old days. They could travel across the ocean much faster than letters, but you could only fit a limited number of word...
Paris and Woollett
Think about it. Paris: the Eiffel Tower, baguettes, the most romantic city on Earth. And beautiful Woollett, Massachusetts: factories, smokestacks, and a whole lotta yawns. In short, Paris symboliz...