Washington Square

240 pages

English language

Published Aug. 19, 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA.

ISBN:
978-0-19-283518-5
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With a new afterword by Michael CunninghamWhat Catherine Sloper lacks in brains and beauty, she makes up for by being "very good." The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win her hand-even if it means pretending that he loves the homely ingenue, and cares nothing for her opulent wealth.

Throughout time, the women of the world always had limited rights when it came to anything. You could almost say they were being discriminated just because of their gender. However, this all changed because of one woman in particular: Deborah Sampson. Deborah Sampson was the first known American woman to impersonate a man in order to join the army and take part in combat. She was born in Plympton, Massachusetts on December 17, 1760 as the oldest of three daughters and three sons of Jonathan and Deborah Sampson. Her family descended from one of the original colonists, Priscilla Mullins Alden, …

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2 stars

I kept reading hoping that at some point the plot would start. It never did. Washington Square was a tiresome, long anecdote about the boring problems of annoying rich people. If this is the most liked and accessible Henry Hames novel, I'd hate to see what the others are like.

I read this book thinking that since I was visiting NYC it would be nice to read a local book. However it has no sense of place. Everything is vague interiority. I hate all the main characters.