Washington Square

Author: Henry James

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9780141441368
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : 0.194
  • : March 2007
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 14mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Penguin Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780141441368
9780141441368

Description

When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a moving study of innocence destroyed.

Author description

Henry James was born in 1843 in Washington Place, New York, of Scottish and Irish ancestry, and died in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.