Washington Square (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

Washington Square (Penguin Readers, Level 2)

Level 2: elementary (600 words)

By Henry James

Retold by Jane Rollason

Publication Date: August 4, 1999 

Catherine Sloper lives quietly with her father and aunt in New York. When her father dies she will be a rich woman. One day Catherine meets a handsome young man called Morris Townsend. He says he wants to marry her but does he love her or her money? Henry James wrote many books about American society in the nineteenth century. Washington Square is now a successful film with Albert Finney, Maggie Smith and Jennifer Jason Leigh.