Henry James's heroine in Washington Square is the plain, shy heiress Catherine Sloper. Unaccustomed to courtship and susceptible to charm,Catherine falls deeply in love with the handsome opportunistMorris Townsend. Her father, Doctor Sloper, scent ing afortune-hunter, is confident he can prevent the marriage. Soconfident that, when persuasion fails, he attempts to protectCatherine by threatening to disinherit her. Waskhington Sqarre is high drama, a battle of wills between fatherand daugh ter enacted in the exquisite drawing-rooms of NewYork society in the 1850s, a world evoked to perfection in oneof Henry James's most popular and accessible novels.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.