by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140432268
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«Washington Square» is the novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century New York, the shy Catherine Sloper, daughter of a prestigious widowed doctor, falls in love with Morris Townsend, a handsome suitor. Her father, convinced that he is only after her fortune, tries to prevent the marriage. The novel explores filial duty, love, and the social restrictions that limited women.
The novel originally appeared in 1880, and this paperback edition was published in 1984.
For readers of American literary classics and nineteenth-century psychological novels.
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.
