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Which Henry James novel was adapted into William Wyler's The Heiress?
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William Wyler's 1949 film The Heiress was adapted from the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James.1
While the film was directly based on a play of the same name by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, that play itself was an adaptation of James's novel, which depicts the strained relationship between a young woman named Catherine Sloper and her domineering father.21