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Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father.
25 Νοε 2022 · A book review of Washington Square by Henry James “I have tried to read over Washington Square, & I can’t, and I fear it must go!”, Henry James wrote to his friend Robert Herrick in 1905. James was
3 Ιουν 2013 · “Washington Square,” a book about misprision, was itself undervalued by its contemporary critics, and even by its author. James believed that he deepened its themes and got them right in ...
7 Οκτ 2016 · The enclosed nature of Washington Square is nowhere more apparent than in the home of its heroine Catherine Sloper. She is the only daughter of a successful physician and a “Great Man of New ...
12 Μαΐ 2017 · “Washington Square” is a great read for anyone who wants to ponder some of life’s big questions about relationships and love. Agnieszka Holland directed a beautiful film adaptation starring Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith and Ben Chaplin.
Henry James’s short novel Washington Square is about Dr. Austin Sloper, a resident of that Square in New York City, who cannot persuade his daughter Catherine not to marry Morris Townsend, whom he correctly regards as an idle mercenary. Although he is a successful doctor he fails as a father.
22 Νοε 1990 · Washington Square is a perfectly balanced novel, narrow in its focus, rather claustrophobic, yet moving along with a speed suitable to the importunate demands of Morris Townsend in the matter of “settling” himself.
