Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...

Seemingly happy in his comfortable, if repressive, world of upper class New York, Newland Archer finds himself questioning all his carefully cherished assumptions about life when he meets his fiancee's cousin, the mysterious, non-conformist Countess Olenska.

"Elena es una rom̀ntica, conocida por su dulce car̀cter en un entorno que puede ser muchas cosas menos sencillo. Siempre ha sido la hija predilecta, la nįa bonita en una familia de mafiosos... hasta ahora. A Nicolas Russo su fama lo precede. Tan atractivo como peligroso, es el futuro cųado de Elena y uno de los m̀s temidos jefes de la mafia, pero todo cambiar̀ cuando sus miradas se crucen por primera vez. Él representa todo lo que Elena odia,...