3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Henry James's 1903 novel following Lambert Strether — sent to Paris to bring back his patron's son — whose experience of Paris transforms his understanding of what it means to live fully, concluding with his famous injunction: 'Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.'
A 1953 novel by L. P. Hartley narrated by an old man remembering one Edwardian summer when, as a boy, he unwittingly acted as messenger between a noblewoman and her farmer lover.
An 1897 novel by Henry James narrated from the limited perspective of a child shuttled between divorced parents and their new partners.