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Set in New York City in the 1840s, this celebrated novel tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the docile and affectionate daughter of a well-to-do physician, who appears destined for a lifetime of spinsterhood with only the companionship of her sardonic father and fatuous aunt.When a flurry of attention from an attractive suitor causes the plain and unremarkable Catherine to fall deeply in ...
29 de nov. de 2012 · Washington Square. Henry James. Penguin UK, Nov 29, 2012 - Fiction - 240 pages. 57 Reviews. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. "Why, you must take me or leave me ... You can't please your father and me both; you must choose between us". When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a ...
"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.
Piazza Washington (Washington Square) è un romanzo di Henry James, pubblicato a puntate dapprima in Inghilterra e subito dopo a New York nel 1880. In volume è uscito a New York, nel dicembre dello stesso anno. La trama si basa, da quanto ne dice lo stesso James nei suoi taccuini, su un aneddoto riferitogli dall'attrice britannica Fanny Kemble.
During a portion of the first half of the present century, and more particularly during the latter part of it, there flourished and practised in the city of New York a physician who enjoyed perhaps an exceptional share of the consideration which, in the United States, has always been bestowed upon distinguished members of the medical profession.
Washington Square is one of Henry James’s most appealing and popular novels, with the most straightforward plot and style of any of his works. Set in the genteel New York of James’s early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with comedy. Dr. Austin Sloper is a wealthy and domineering father who is disappointed in the unremarkable ...
Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.
