{"product_id":"washington-square-paperback-10","title":"Washington Square - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Horne\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHenry James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMartha Banta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, delivers an ultimatum: break off her engagement, or be stripped of her inheritance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the only man who has ever declared his love for her, Catherine faces an agonising dilemma, and becomes all too aware of the restrictions that others seek to place on her freedom. James's masterly novel deftly interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a deeply moving study of innocence destroyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition of \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e includes a chronology, suggested further reading, notes and an introduction discussing the novel's lasting influence and James's depiction of the quiet strength of his heroine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e. His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e (1880), \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e (1881), \u003ci\u003eThe Awkward Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1899), \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove \u003c\/i\u003e(1902), \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e (1903) and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e (1904). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Edith Wharton's \u003ci\u003eThe House of Mirth\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e is a perfectly balanced novel... a work of surpassing refinement and interest'\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Hardwick \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced a work comparable to Jane Austen's'\u003cbr\u003eGraham Greene\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Horne\u003c\/b\u003e has spent a decade looking at the thousands of James's letters in archives in the United States and Europe. A Reader in English Literature at University College, London, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eHenry James and Revision\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of James's \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Muse\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry James\u003c\/b\u003e (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, \u003ci\u003eRoderick Hudson\u003c\/i\u003e. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote \u003ci\u003eThe American \u003c\/i\u003e(1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with \u003ci\u003eDaisy Miller\u003c\/i\u003e. Other famous works include \u003ci\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/i\u003e (1880), \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e (1881), \u003ci\u003eThe Princess Casamassima\u003c\/i\u003e (1886), \u003ci\u003eThe Aspern Papers\u003c\/i\u003e (1888), \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw \u003c\/i\u003e(1898), and three large novels of the new century, \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e (1902), \u003ci\u003e The Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e (1903) and \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e (1907).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. 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