Back when New York was still young, so was heiress Catherine Sloper. A
simple, plain girl, she grew up in opulence with a disappointed father
and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square.
Enter Morris Townsend, a handsome charmer who assures Catherine he loves
her for herself and not for her money. But Catherine's revered father
sees in Townsend what she cannot. Now, with her tearful aunt Penniman as
his amusingly melodramatic ally, Townsend will present Catherine with
the hardest choice of her young life....
With a New Introduction and an Afterword by Michael Cunningham, Author
of The Hours