This "perceptive" and "satisfying" biography of George Washington by an award-winning historian "deserves a place on every American's bookshelf" ( The New York Times Book Review).James Thomas Flexner's masterful four-volume biography of America's first president, which received a special Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for its concluding installment, is the definitive chronicle of Washington's life and a...

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«Washington Square spiega Franco Cordelli nella sua introduzione è un bellissimo romanzo, un romanzo che precede di alcuni anni i più celebri racconti di Anton ?echov. Un nome sorprendente da accostare a quello di uno scrittore tanto arido come era James, eppure non casuale. In Washington Square predomina, soprattutto nel finale, nelle memorabili pagine retrospettive, quelle dei bilanci e degli addii, un tono crepuscolare, quasi di mestizia, e comunque di acuto, lancinante raccoglimento».

Catherine Sloper no es muy inteligente ni muy atractiva. A pesar de ello, Morris Townsend la encuentra absolutamente irresistible, no tanto por su nobleza y bondad como por la fortuna que está destinada a heredar. Townsend no tiene dificultades en seducir a Catherine, pero se encuentra con la oposición de su padre, el doctor Sloper, que no se deja engañar por las apariencias y lo considera un desaprensivo cazafortunas. Washington Square (La heredera), de 1881, ambientada en Nueva York, es ...

The story revolves around Catherine Sloper, a plain and socially awkward young woman who lives with her wealthy widowed father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in a house on Washington Square. Catherine's father is a prominent and successful physician, while Catherine herself is shy and lacks the beauty and charm that are expected of women in her social circle.When Catherine becomes the object of attention and affection from a suitor named Morris Townsend, Dr. Sloper becomes suspicious of Morris's moti...

**You think you know George Washington.** The face on the dollar bill. The cherry tree that never happened. The marble statue who feels less like a man than a monument — distant, cold, impossible to relate to. That's the problem. Generations of myth-making turned the most fascinating leader in American history into a boring icon, and somewhere along the way we lost the real man: the ambitious young soldier, the daring rebel, the reluctant president who could have made himself king — and re...

Catherine Sloper, the only surviving child of the Sloper family, is a kind but plain girl, and as such is treated by her widowed father, Dr. Sloper. So when Catherine becomes engaged, Dr. Sloper finds it hard to believe that any man would be interested in her for anything but her inheritance, and sets his mind to separating his daughter from her fiancé.Although Henry James is said to have disdained Washington Square, since its publication the novel has become one of the au...

GEORGE WASHINGTON — Audiobook · Narrated by David Patel. Listen time: 5 hours 26 minutes The complete narrative biography of George Washington — soldier, rebel, president — from the Ohio Valley's first shot of a world war through the Constitutional Convention, the two-term precedent, and the Mount Vernon slaveholder who freed his people in his will. In 1783, a Continental Army officer named Lewis Nicola wrote Washington a letter proposing he accept the title of king. Washington's reply ...

A Team of Rivals for World War II—the inside story of how FDR and the towering personalities around him waged war in the corridors of Washington, D.C., to secure ultimate victory on the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific.The Washington War is the story of how the Second World War was fought and won in the capital’s halls of power—and how the United States, which in December 1941 had a nominal army and a decimated naval fleet, was able in only ...

A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first presidentRevolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man whose image today is the result of the careful grooming of his public persona to include the themes of character, self-sacrifice, and destiny.As Washington sought to inter...

Catherine Sloper, jeune fille plutôt niaise et laide, tombe sous le charme du très beau et très élégant Morris Townsend qui la demande bientôt en mariage. Mais le père de Catherine, le Dr Sloper, qui n'a jamais été enclin à beaucoup d'indulgence envers sa fille qu'il aime et méprise tout à la fois, s'inquiète de la tournure inattendue des événements. Il flaire chez ce jeune Morris un arriviste de la pire espèce qui n'en veut qu'à l'héritage de Catherine Sloper. Car la jeune fille a beau ne...

Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. It is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared with Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships.The bitterest irony in the story is that Dr. ...