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Precise and understated, WASHINGTON SQUARE endures as a matchless social study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.

About the Author

Cynthia Ozick, a recipient of a Lannan Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for essays, is the author of Trust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, and The Puttermesser Papers. She lives in New York.

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“Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry.” —Graham Greene

"Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry." -Graham Greene