The Ambassadors: Henry James

When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to `save` Chad, the son of his formidable fiancee, he soon discovers that life in Europe is not at all what he had expected. Faced by the temptations of Parisian culture and the possibility of emotional liberation, Lambert is forced to reconsider his values.
Full of his customary wit and canny observations, Henry James proclaimed The Ambassadors to be his greatest novel.