(DOWNLOAD) "Washington Square" by Henry James * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Washington Square
- Author : Henry James
- Release Date : January 08, 2019
- Genre: Romance,Books,Fiction & Literature,Classics,Young Adult,Fiction,Literary,Romantic Comedy,Contemporary,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1380 KB
Description
Washington Square marks the culmination of Henry 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 articulated or is subject to suppression.