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Washington Square , written in 1881, belongs to James’ first period of creation. This short novel reveals James’ special gift as a subtle observer of human behaviour and psychology in a money oriented society. The heroine of the novel, Catherine Sloper, falls victim to a domineering father and an interested suitor. At the age of 20, Catherine’s advantage is her prospect of inheriting a fortune and this attracts a suitor, Morris Townsend, who proves to be a fortune-hunter. Dr. Sloper embodies the type of the parent in a dramatic and fatal relationship with his only child. He is quite singular in his refinement and sophisticated nature as well as in his controlled impulse by reason and he is endowed with the faculty of self-analysis...

Henry VIII, Tudor king of England ( 1509-1547 ), and founder of the Church of England. The son of Henry VII, he profoundly influenced the character of the English monarchy. Henry was born in London on June 28, 1491, and on the death of his father in 1509 succeeded to the throne ( his elder brother Arthur having died in 1502 ). He then married his brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon, having been betrother to her through a papal dispensation secured in 1503. This was the first of Henry’s six marriages, all of which were affected by the political and religious conditions of the time and by the monarch’s increasingly despotic behaviour...

The Catcher in the Rye confirmed and sustained his reputation and gained him a position as one of the most important American writers of the young generation. The book is nevertheless a first-rate novel and one of the most convincing studies of adolescence ever to be written by an American. Salinger is widely seen as a keen students of children. In 1951 he published The Catcher in the Rye – a touching psychological study of adolescence, in which he views the American way of life through the eyes of a teen-age nonconformist, Holden Caulfield, a twentieth century rival of Twain's Huck Finn. Holden is a person whose defining quality is his inability to behave according to the strict morals and social code of the day...

"Julius Caesar" is one of the most important creations of William Shakespeare, the king of English dramatists. The play was made in a moment of England's history when the events were similar to the year 44 BC in Rome, when Caesar returned from his successful campaign in Spain and started to become a dictator. The play is a contrast of republican and imperial ideas, exposed by Brutus and Caesar respective...

LONDON (CNN) -- Princess Diana's injuries from the Paris car crash were so severe and her blood loss so massive it would have been impossible for her to survive, British doctors said Sunday. As details emerged about the accident that killed the princess and her millionaire Egyptian companion Dodi Fayed in Paris, medical experts in London heaped praise on their French counterparts and said they had done everything possible to save her life...