Washington Square (Everymans Library Classics) - Hardcover

James, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841593524 ISBN 13: 9781841593524

Publisher: Everyman, 2013

Synopsis

When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune hunter after his daughter’s inheritance. He forbids the marriage but Catherine persists in her affection, encouraged by her foolish aunt Lavinia who has a weakness for Maurice herself. Dr Sloper takes Catherine abroad to distract her from the infatuation, but she proves to be as stubborn as her father. The book is a vivid study of the four central characters drawn in what are, for this author, unusually strong primary colours.
Six novels by Henry James and two volumes of his shorter fiction are already published in Everyman’s Library.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

"Washington Square is perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable to Jane Austen's," said Graham Greene.
    Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the heart of heiress Catherine Sloper against the objections of her father. Precise and understated, the book endures as a matchless social study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.
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From the Back Cover

"Washington Square is a perfectly balanced novel . . . a work of surpassing refinement and interest."

         --Elizabeth Hardwick

"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry."

--Graham Greene

Edition details

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841593524
• ISBN 13: 9781841593524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232