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Washington Square (Blackstone Audio Edition)

By: Henry James
Narrated by: Lloyd James
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 On New York City's Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain-looking young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper, distrusting his motives, threatens to disinherit Catherine.

In accordance with her father's suspicions, young Townsend disappears, leaving Catherine to humiliation, heartache, and lonely spinsterhood. Years later, after her father's death, Townsend returns, and Catherine must make up her own mind about his intentions.

This 1881 novel was adapted into the popular movie The Heiress.

(P)1999 Blackstone Audio Inc. Classics Military Heartfelt War

Critic Reviews

"Washington Square is a perfectly balanced novel...a work of surpassing refinement and interest." (Elizabeth Hardwick)
"It's James at the top of his form." (AudioFile)
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The quality of James’s writing and the narrator’s reading are excellent. Not many narrators are good at bringing James’s prose to life.

Very fine performance fe.

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this is a sparsely told story, worth reading in conjunction To Paradise for the contrast to the first book in that.

This is a well constructed, if sparse book

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Perfect depiction of a stubborn righteous man protecting a daughter from an unscrupulous suitor with morally complex outcome. New York society as a microcosm of human nature at its best and worst

Graceful intelligent pure storytelling

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