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Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America Washington Square is edited with an introduction & notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics When timid & plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing & determined Morris Townsend her father convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter delivers an ultimatum break off her engagement or be stripped of her inheritance Torn between her desire to win her father's love & approval & her passion for the only man who has ever declared his love for her Catherine faces an agonising dilemma & becomes all too aware of the restrictions that others seek to place on her freedom James's masterly novel deftly interweaves the public & private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a deeply moving study of innocence destroyed This edition of Washington Square

Includes:: a chronology suggested further reading notes & an introduction discussing the novel's lasting influence & James's depiction of the quiet strength of his heroine Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian & brother to the philosopher William James was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle His novella ' Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic & his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880) The Portrait of a Lady (1881) The Awkward Age (1899) The Wings of the Dove (1902) The Ambassadors (1903) & The Golden Bowl (1904) If you enjoyed Washington Square you might like Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth also available in Penguin Classics' Washington Square is a perfectly balanced novel a work of surpassing refinement & interest' Elizabeth Hardwick' Perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field & produced a work comparable to Jane Austen's' Graham Greene

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Introduction & Notes by Ian FA Bell Professor of English Literature University of Keele Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners & behaviour in the New York of the 1870's a period of great change in the life of the city This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial & industrial expansion Through the relationships between Austin Sloper a celebrated physician & his sister Lavinia Penniman his daughter Catherine & Catherine's suitor Morris Townsend James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles & performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression ...

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