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Washington Square (Blackstone Audio Edition)
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
In accordance with her father's suspicions, young Townsend disappears, leaving Catherine to humiliation, heartache, and lonely spinsterhood. Years later, after her father's death, Townsend returns, and Catherine must make up her own mind about his intentions.
This 1881 novel was adapted into the popular movie The Heiress.
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"It's James at the top of his form." ( AudioFile)
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- glassophile
- 20-09-16
impeccable reading<br />
is difficult to imagine a better reading. Lloyd James reads quite slowly with slight pauses to allow the listener to take in the meaning. Even though this is one of Henry James' more straightforward works, it is ideal to have these half seconds to absorb the prose. only negative is that this was a cassette recording, and we get the end of side or tape announcements. Audible needs to sort out these issues.
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- Harvey Rose
- 02-07-17
Great listen to a classic
Well written and extremely well narrated. A real classic and a good listen. Highly recommended. Gave it 5 stars
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- Elan Nissim
- 18-09-22
this book is about NOTHING!
I wasted all my time listening to this book and nothing, nothing happens in the end! literally, NOTHING!
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- anasta
- 26-05-22
Curious story
Well written story and typical of its time.
Well narrated.
Still not convinced about the ending....
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-12-21
A story of two halves
I am in a phase of enjoying this period in New York’s social life. Both James and Edith Wharton are wonderful writers in comparison modern authors seem to lack the depth of vision and power of observation. When people say that a book is ‘well written’ these books should form the template of their view. I don’t believe that I make these remarks with judgement obscured by the novelty of the style or fascination with the period in which they were written!
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- Maggie Macdonald
- 19-02-24
James or Wharton?
Who used this plot first, Henry James or Edith Wharton? Word minimum word minimum word minimum
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- T. J. Gluckman
- 23-11-23
Henry James at his best; moving text full of irony
I wish Henry James had written more books like this. IMO (in my opinion) his short stories (e.g. 'Turn of the Screw' 'The Aspern Papers') and shorter novels are his best work before he got lost in endless sentences...Yes there's always something going on under the surface & it's an acquired taste but not mine.
This book actually moves, and full of sharp, piquant dialogues; There are six main characters and in a book of this length each has space to be developed.
Very well read by somebody from the seemingly endless pool of excellent USA readers / actors.
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- Redglass
- 04-06-23
Haunting
Involving story of a very ordinary, unloved young woman targeted by a fortune hunter
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- Tone
- 21-03-23
Dreary story, Dreary narrator.
This is not the place to start with James.
It lacks his exquisite prose and it really is a slog of a tale that goes nowhere.
The narrator puts an extremely dower and depressing tone to the story and I don't know if it was James' intention but the father is void of all emotion.
Rather dull, monotonous and unrewarding view of life and the usual pains and obsession with who should marry who and why and does it really matter when all is said and done.
For comparison, Trollope on the other hand at least injects a bit of humour into the same themes.
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- The Professor
- 18-03-23
Very good
Great reading of this book. Well done! I hope to hear more of Henry James.
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