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Written by Henry James - Audio book performed by Lloyd James - Unabridged Fiction - 7 COMPACT DISCS

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (July 2001)

"Washington Square is a perfectly balanced novel... a work of surpassing refinement and interest." —Elizabeth Hardwick

"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry." —Graham Greene

The setting for this novel (originally published in 1881) is New York City. The story involves a rich, widowed physician, his homely daughter, and a fortune-hunting suitor. The daughter shuns the counsel of her father and the consequences are cruel: lifelong withdrawal and loneliness.

James is the acknowledged master of the psychological novel, which profoundly influenced the 20th-century literary world. The power of his prose and the skill with which he marshals seemingly insignificant details to accomplish his purpose sustains the listener’s interest and compels continued contemplation.