Washington Square (Wordsworth Classics) by James, Henry

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd. New. Wordsworth Press, Paperback, 2001, Book Condition: New, Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell. Professor of English Literature. University of Keele Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be… Read More

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Ware, Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Classics/ Wordsworth Editions, Ltd., 2001. Wordsworth Classic Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Robert Mathais (Cover Design); Henry Herbert La Thangue (Cover Illustration). 324 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Mild foxing on page edges.

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2001. Paperback. New. 154 pages. 7.50x5.00x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Dr Sloper is disappointed in his dull daughter, Catherine, a mediocre replacement for his beautiful and intelligent wife who died soon after childbirth. Yet, as Sloper threatens, beguiles and dictates to his daughter, he discovers in Ca