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  • Washington Square

  • By: Henry James
  • Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
  • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Summary

The battle between a father and a daughter is usually portrayed in literature as a struggle between a headstrong but feisty girl and a tradition-bound lead weight of a father. Henry James, of course, had to do it somewhat differently.

He tells a story of an intelligent man riding the turn of the tide in mid-19th-century New York and watching what he sees as his numbingly dull and conventional daughter making the mistake of her life in her choice of husband.

The fight between these two delicious characters makes this one of James' funniest and most enjoyable of novels, with the suspense carried right up until the last moment as to how the contest will end.

Public Domain (P)2008 Silksoundbooks Limited
Classics
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The performance great ....story not so

Read this to get a sense of Henry James work. While interesting in style and representation of a class of American now gone?
The performance made the story more interesting and tolerable.

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