by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141441368
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«Washington Square» is the classic novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century New York high society, Catherine Sloper, a shy heiress, is courted by the attractive Morris Townsend. Her father, who considers him a fortune hunter, opposes the relationship. Catherine, torn between filial loyalty and love, discovers the conventions that limit female freedom.
2007 edition, with an introduction by Martha Banta.
For readers of American literary classics and period romance 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.
