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Author(s): James, Henry
Reader(s): Chancer, John
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA0276
Barcode: 9781781980668
Release Date: 01/2017
JAMES, H.: Ambassadors (The) (Unabridged)
In the second novel of James’s celebrated late period, American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs Newsome, his fiancée, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man and becomes introduced to a free and unconventional style of life that soon intoxicates him. His views begin to change; the morality of Woollett, his hometown, becomes foreign, and the ‘ambassador’ loses sight of his mission… Part tragedy, part comedy, The Ambassadors is a rewarding portrait about one man’s late awakening.
Tracklist
Disc 1
James, Henry - Author
Chancer, John (Reader)
|  | 1 | The Ambassadors | 06:41 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | It wasn't till after he had spoken… | 06:30 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | He was about to go up to London… | 06:19 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | She left him after he had taken from… | 06:03 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Though he wasn't shy… | 06:26 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | I'm a companion at large. | 06:16 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 2 | 07:24 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | He was of the personal type… | 08:38 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | It had the oddest sound… | 09:23 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 3 | 05:36 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | She was weak enough… | 05:22 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 2
| | 1 | It was at all events… | 06:41 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Yes, and talking to you as I do.' | 05:59 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Book Second: Chapter 1 | 06:18 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | All sorts of things in fact… | 07:09 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | It was as if for a moment… | 07:59 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | She had listened with all her interest. | 07:56 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | 'In the midst of such doings…' | 07:31 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | After which however, and before… | 08:18 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | 'By which you mean…' | 08:20 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 2 | 08:08 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 3
| | 1 | In the Luxembourg Gardens… | 07:32 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | But it stood solidly for… | 06:27 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | These were instants at… | 08:14 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | It upset him a little… | 07:37 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | He was that at no moment… | 05:15 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | This perpetual reaction put a price… | 05:45 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Book Third: Chapter 1 | 06:33 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | The way he wound it up… | 06:34 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | As, however, this last assertion… | 06:09 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | There was no great pulse… | 07:01 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | He might perish by the sword… | 05:12 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 4
| | 1 | Chapter 2 | 06:07 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | 'When then does he come?' | 05:40 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | He had agreed with Miss Gostrey… | 05:51 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | He liked the ingenuous compatriots… | 06:15 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | 'The best of whom, Ma'am?' | 06:12 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | He faced it on the spot. | 05:58 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | It was truly the life… | 05:51 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | He had therefore, further… | 09:22 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Book Fourth: Chapter 1 | 05:36 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | But in spite of that… | 07:20 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | Chad again fell back… | 05:41 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | 'Of course,' Chad here… | 08:10 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 5
| | 1 | Chad's pride seemed none the less… | 05:28 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 2 | 06:19 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Strether sought relief… | 06:17 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | All one's energy goes… | 06:00 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | He had the courage at least… | 05:57 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | They were occasions of discussion… | 06:11 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Little Bilham, in meditation… | 05:36 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | As the half-hour meanwhile… | 06:09 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Nothing certainly, on all the indications… | 06:05 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | But she kept it up. | 07:32 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | Book Fifth: Chapter 1 | 06:15 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | Strether had presently the sense… | 07:05 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 6
| | 1 | Who were they all…? | 06:14 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Strether, very quickly, turned… | 05:42 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Well then there we are!' | 06:46 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 2 | 05:33 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | 'I've heard a great deal…' | 05:54 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Madame de Vionnet didn't… | 05:46 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | It was the general sense of them… | 05:53 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Then there was something in the… | 05:11 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Well, what was it now… | 04:20 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 3 | 05:41 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | It was nothing new to him… | 06:35 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | She went on at all events… | 05:53 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 13 | Strether wondered - little as he… | 04:51 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 7
| | 1 | Chad kept it up beautifully. | 08:10 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Book Sixth: Chapter 1 | 05:47 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | The general resolve to this… | 05:55 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | It gave poor Strether… | 06:02 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | 'Is that what Chad has told you…' | 05:01 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Strether meanwhile had been staring. | 04:43 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 2 | 06:37 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Jeanne de Vionnet had… | 05:45 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | 'He has wonderful taste…' | 05:53 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | 'Well,' he acutely admitted… | 07:19 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | She smoked again as she thus… | 03:59 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 3 | 04:44 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 13 | 'Not since she went - I had only…' | 05:29 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 8
| | 1 | 'Not,' Strether replied… | 05:55 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | 'I'm unfortunately but a small farthing…' | 05:58 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | It isn't every clever… | 05:13 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | 'I thought that was…' | 07:32 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Book Seventh: Chapter 1 | 06:16 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Thus it was, at all events… | 06:03 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | 'I come often,' she said… | 05:56 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Every little, in a long strain… | 06:17 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | That accident had definitely occurred… | 04:40 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | She was instantly all there. | 06:19 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | 'Oh all the while, naturally.' | 07:19 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | Chapter 2 | 07:26 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 9
| | 1 | Strether, at his glass, finished dressing… | 05:57 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Well,' said Strether… | 05:53 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | He got up at last… | 07:38 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 3 | 06:29 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | It was an account… | 05:57 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | But the difficulty as to… | 06:02 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | He walked about with her… | 06:04 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | 'My coming to grief?' | 07:04 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Book Eighth: Chapter 1 | 05:52 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | He had the entertainment… | 05:08 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | It was the advantage… | 06:21 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | A moment after speaking… | 04:07 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 10
| | 1 | All that, for Chad, was beautifully obvious. | 09:17 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Chapter 2 | 07:48 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | As to which issue… | 06:41 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | However Sarah was judging… | 07:00 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | It was a strange impression… | 06:17 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | There were things in this speech… | 08:50 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 3 | 07:07 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | Madame de Vionnet had… | 06:17 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Mrs Pocock met her handsomely… | 06:35 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | 'When does one ever see you?' | 07:47 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 11
| | 1 | Still another result of it was… | 04:56 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | Sarah hesitated, but she rose equal. | 05:46 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | Book Ninth: Chapter 1 | 06:20 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | She had invented a way… | 07:03 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | 'She may be persuasive…' | 08:06 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | 'But for Mr Waymarsh' - she recalled… | 05:44 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | She looked for a moment… | 07:54 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | 'Monsieur de Vionnet will accept…' | 08:19 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 2 | 06:09 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | He had a laugh at his tribute… | 06:28 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | 'You thought Chad…' | 07:40 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 12
| | 1 | Chapter 3 | 05:43 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | It was apparently for Sarah… | 06:25 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | She turned with a start… | 06:04 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | But, friendly, familiar, light of touch… | 05:54 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | He risked accordingly a different question… | 04:50 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | Book Tenth: Chapter 1 | 05:44 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | A thousand unuttered thoughts… | 06:22 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | 'Just as good as you and these others?' | 06:42 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | 'You want me to marry…?' | 06:05 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Little Bilham sat staring before him… | 05:52 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | She had apparently… | 06:22 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | 'It's only up to her chin.' | 06:05 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 13 | And then, as he seemed… | 06:05 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 13
| | 1 | Chapter 2 | 06:12 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | And it was others who looked abstemious… | 05:40 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | This was spoken by Waymarsh… | 05:47 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Their eyes met on it with some intensity… | 07:57 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 3 | 06:38 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | She wasn't at all funny at last… | 07:44 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Till then her view of his… | 06:06 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | He tried, with no great success… | 04:44 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Book Eleventh: Chapter 1 | 06:18 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | He had been pursuing Chad… | 06:42 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | But I've supposed you all this while… | 06:25 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 14
| | 1 | It was as if Mrs Newsome… | 06:12 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | 'Oh you mustn't starve!' | 05:50 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | 'Do you want to sit still?' | 05:11 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Chapter 2 | 07:08 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | 'You're certainly very kind to me.' | 05:58 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | He stood before her again. | 06:49 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | 'The really handsome thing perhaps,'… | 05:54 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | 'But they were to have…' | 05:52 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | 'You mean you were to have found Chad…' | 05:07 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 3 | 06:08 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | There was a train back to Paris… | 05:01 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | In the light of the last few days… | 06:48 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 13 | For this had been all day… | 05:58 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 15
| | 1 | Chapter 4 | 06:48 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | He was to reflect later… | 08:10 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | It was with the lie… | 08:24 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Book Twelfth: Chapter 1 | 06:39 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | This would give a sense… | 07:59 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | He should soon be going… | 07:28 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Chapter 2 | 06:36 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | He felt what he had felt… | 05:48 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | She sat and covered her face… | 07:47 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Disc 16
| | 1 | Chapter 3 | 05:56 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 2 | 'The essential freshness of a relation…' | 07:10 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 3 | 'It was to talk to me,' Maria returned…' | 06:54 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 4 | Strether thought of it serenely. | 07:53 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 5 | Chapter 4 | 05:58 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 6 | But he had meanwhile come up four flights… | 06:11 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 7 | Strether met his eyes… | 06:03 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 8 | After which, however, as his friend… | 06:57 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 9 | Affects, you mean, the sale…?' | 04:32 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 10 | Chapter 5 | 04:39 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 11 | He came back to his breakfast… | 05:37 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
| | 12 | 'What then do you go home to?' | 06:54 |
Chancer, John (Reader)
Total Playing Time: 19:46:11