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If Washington Square by Henry James is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, Literary Criticism and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Henry James, William Shakespeare, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, and others.