Washington Square (the Collected Works of Henry James)
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About This Novel
In the middle and upper class society of New York in the mid-19th century, the fierce conflict between marriage and money showed the confrontation between ignorance and corruption. "Washington Square" uses a twists and turns of a touching love story as its theme, and unfolds a struggle between two values around love and money. The heroine Catherine is a wealthy lady who falls in love with the charming property hunter Townsend. However, her father is cunning and firmly opposes their marriage. In the torment of love and father's fate, Catherine suffered from her father's ruthlessness, and finally was shamelessly betrayed by her fiancé, leaving her to live a lonely life in an apartment on the corner of Washington Square.
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