Henry James: Novels 1881-1886 (LOA #29) Washington Square / the Portrait of a Lady / the Bostonians

Name: Henry James: Novels 1881-1886 (LOA #29) Washington Square / the Portrait of a Lady / the Bostonians
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ISBN: 9780940450301

ISBN-10: 0940450305

ISBN-13: 9780940450301

Edition: 1985

Authors: Henry James, William T. Stafford, Henry James, William Stafford

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Written in London and Italy between 1879 and 1885, these novels portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. Studies in the exercise of power that marks relations between sexes, classes, and cultures, they show James's special solicitude for the young heroines who occupy the center of his fictional world. Washington Square (1880) examines the life of Catherine Sloper, a plain, sweet young woman who lives imprisoned by the selfishness of those close to her: her lover, who cares only for her fortune; her aunt, who meddles for the sake of romantic intrigue; and her protective father, who repays her adoration with irony and wit. Set in the New York of the 1840s,…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 12/1/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1262
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English



Washington Square


The Portrait of a Lady


The Bostonians


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