by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140019209
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«Washington Square» is the classic novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Set in nineteenth-century New York, the story centres on Catherine Sloper, a shy and inexperienced young woman living under the authority of her father, a widowed and distant doctor. When Morris Townsend, an attractive suitor without fortune, appears, the father distrusts his intentions and Catherine is forced to choose between love and family loyalty.
Work originally published in 1880; this edition dates from 1963.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and period dramas centred on family and romantic conflicts.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
