Washington Square
JAMES Henry
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Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but her father, a clever physician, is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not consent to the marriage, regardless of the cost to his daughter.
Out of this classic confrontation Henry James fashioned one of his most deftly searching shorter fictions. First published in 1880 but set some forty years earlier in a pre-Civil War New York, the novel reflects ironically on the restricted world in which its ...
Publication date: 2010-11
Number of pages: 183
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics
Subjects:
Fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Published in the UK
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