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 title, The Heiress.
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 return home to Woollett, Massachisetts, where he is neede in the damily business. It is a mission of salvation, for Chad appears to have fallen prey to a "Wicked Women". Stether's own fortunes are inextr…