# Washington Square

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- Book: [Washington Square](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/washington-square) ([Washington Square.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/washington-square.md))
- Authors: [Henry James](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james)
- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN: 978-10-0966-170-6
- Pages: 322
- Published: 2025-05-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.