Washington Square (1881) - Henry James
Public domain
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Lloyd James
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Adults
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Release date: January 1, 2006 Duration: 07:15:41, On New York Citys Washington Square lives Catherine Sloper, a shy and plain young woman who is tyrannized by her wealthy, overbearing father. When young Morris Townsend begins to court her, Dr. Sloper distrusts his motives, believing that the young man could not possibly love his daughter., Both lovers are obstinate in their affections; but when Dr. Sloper threatens to disinherit Catherine, Townsend disappears, leaving Catherine to humiliation, heartache, and lonely spinsterhood., Years later, after her fathers death, Townsend returns, and Catherine must make up her own mind about his intentions., This 1880 novel takes place in the New York society familiar to James from his childhood and is from the same period in his life that produced PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Here too he is concerned with the judgment, and fate, of a sheltered young lady of means who may not understand the true motives of the man who court
