Washington Square
$16.34
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2013
Summary
Back when New York was still young, so was heiress Catherine Sloper. A simple, plain girl, she grew up in opulence with a disappointed father and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square.
Enter Morris Townsend, a handsome charmer who assures Catherine he loves her for herself and not for her money. But Catherine’s revered father sees in Townsend what she cannot. Now, with her tearful aunt Penniman as his amusingly melodramatic ally, Townsend will present Catherine with th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451416773 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451416775 |
| Author: | Henry James, Michael Cunningham, Mona Simpson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 107mm x 171mm |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
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Critics Review
“Every line, every paragraph, every chapter…is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony.”-Cynthia Ozick
“Every line, every paragraph, every chapter…is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony.”—Cynthia Ozick
Henry James
Son of the religious philosopher Henry James Sr. and brother of the psychologist and philosopher William James, Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York City and spent his early life in America. He was taken to Europe intermittently, especially during the impressionable years from twelve to seventeen. After that, he lived in Newport, attended Harvard briefly, and in 1864, began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines.
Later, he visited Europe and began Roderick Hudson. In late 1875, he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola and wrote The American. In 1876, he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels: The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904).
In 1905, he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907). He also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into the war effort in 1914. In 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In January 1916, King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London, and his ashes were buried in the James family plot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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