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Washington Square (titre original : Washington Square) est un roman d' Henry James, d'abord publié sous forme de feuilleton dans le Cornhill Magazine et le Harper's New Monthly à partir de décembre 1880 .
3 de jun. de 2019 · Washington Square di Henry James. Washington Square. di Henry James. Catherine è la figlia del ricco ereditiere Austin Sloper, vedovo dalla nascita della bambina, cresciuta dal padre con evidente ...
"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.
It was a regular custom with the family in Washington Square to go and spend Sunday evening at Mrs. Almond’s. On the Sunday after the conversation I have just narrated, this custom was not intermitted and on this occasion, towards the middle of the evening, Dr. Sloper found reason to withdraw to the library, with his brother-in-law, to talk over a matter of business.
Resumen y sinopsis de Washington Square de Henry James. A mediados del siglo XIX, cuando las nuevas clases emergentes ya empezaban a mudarse al norte de Manhattan, un rico y prestigioso médico neoyorquino se construye una casa en Washington Square. Es una «casa bonita, moderna», con terraza y porche de mármol.
11 de nov. de 2010 · Henry James. OUP Oxford, Nov 11, 2010 - Fiction - 224 pages. 'She will do as I have bidden her.'. Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded ...
Washington Square (1880) was originally published in two different magazines as a serial and Henry James himself didn't really think much of it as a small novel, and I would partly agree with that. Structurally simple in it's approach the story basically recounts a conflict between father and daughter over her wishes to wed a gentleman called Morris Townsend, who he greatly disproves of.
