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is a novel by author Henry James, published in 1903. Initially serialized in the North American Review (NAR). This dark comedy, one of the masterpieces of the last period of James, follows the journey of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad, the supposedly wayward son of his fiancee, a widow; You have to retrieve the boy to the family business, but what is it with unexpected complications. The third-person narrative takes exclusively the point of view of Strether.