Ebook {Epub PDF} Washington Square by Henry James

Washington Square, short novel by Henry James, published in and praised for its depiction of the complicated relationship between a stubborn father and his daughter. The novel’s main character, Catherine Sloper, lives with her widowed aunt and her physician father in New York City’s fashionable Washington Square district. A plain, rather stolid young woman, Catherine is a disappointment to her .  · The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in , was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of marble steps ascending to . Washington Square is one of the more frequently adapted of Henry James’s works, the most popular version being The Heiress, a film adaptation starring Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper and Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend. The film won four Academy Awards.

Henry James's "Washington Square" wasn't a particular favorite of its author. James called the short novel "poorish" and, in a letter to his daunting older brother, William, wrote. The Modernism of Henry James' Washington Square. James Lipton, theatre director and host of Bravo's Inside the Actor's Studio, has a pet theory about actors and entertainers he trots out on air from time to time, a theory he bases on hundreds of interviews: children of divorce often become artists—particularly of the theatrical sort. Now playing on the Online Stage is our unabridged full cast recording of the Henry James novel "Washington Square", now available on Audible. LINK: https://w.

The ideal of quiet and of genteel retirement, in , was found in Washington Square, where the Doctor built himself a handsome, modern, wide-fronted house, with a big balcony before the drawing-room windows, and a flight of marble steps ascending to a portal which was also faced with white marble. James, Henry, Title: Washington Square Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language. Washington Square is a short novel (more a novella) by Henry James written in , and is really an excellent Shakespeare's King Lear and Titus Andronicus certainly come to mind, or Hardy's 'Michael Henchard', and 'Laius of Thebes' may be the worst of the lot.