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The setting is New York City. The plot centers upon an heiress, Catherine Sloper, favored by neither beauty nor brilliance; her proud and pitiless father, Doctor Sloper; and her fortune-hunting suitor, Morris Townsend. Through a series of confrontations and self-revelations, James portrays their shifting relationships and his own views of love and cruelty, innocence and treachery.
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"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry."
Graham Greene
"Lloyd James gives an excellent reading. His voice is very pleasant and his rendering of the text is subtle and well paced."
Kliatt
"Every line, every paragraph, every chapter [ofWashington Square] is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony. "
Cynthia Ozick, American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist