Washington Square

Henry James · 1880 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Victorian

Catherine Sloper is a plain, dutiful girl with a large inheritance coming and a physician father whose affection stops at irony, so when a handsome young man of no profession begins to call, the doctor is certain what he is after. The courtship proceeds under a threat to disinherit her and is egged on by a romantic aunt who loves an intrigue. James thought little of the book afterwards; it is the most economical thing he wrote.

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• parallels ↑ Eugénie Grandet
  Honoré de Balzac · 1833 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Heiress
  William Wyler · 1949 CE · Film — adapts this

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