Watch and ward.
By Henry James, jr.

Description

Main Author

James, Henry, 1843-1916

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston, Houghton, Osgood and company, 1878.

Subjects

Marriage > Marriage / Fiction
Romans.
Fiction
Fiction

Summary

Wealthy and leisured Roger Lawrence adopts an orphaned twelve-year-old girl, Nora Lambert, and raises her as his eventual bride-to-be, but once Nora matures into a beautiful young woman, she is attracted to two other men. Henry James later disowned the book and spoke of "Roderick Hudson" as his first novel

Note

First published in the Atlantic monthly, 1871.

Physical Description

219 p. 15 cm.

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