Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Gustave Caillebotte, Édouard Manet and Camille Pissarro. A middle-aged New Englander is sent to Paris to retrieve a young man from an unsuitable attachment, and finds that the young man is right. James thought it his best book. The scene in the garden where Strether tells a young man to live all he can is the closest James ever came to speaking in his own voice. Sixty plates of Paris streets, opera boxes and coastal light by painters including Mary Cassatt and Carl Schuch catch the city that loosens Strether's grip on his errand.