Combining two volumes of Wharton's short stories in a brand new edition, this outstanding selection is the most comprehensive available. Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a master of all its varieties. Wharton's stories ... owe their enduring power to portray the emotional consequences of life in a rarefied world."—The New York Times
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Great Collection,
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This collection of stories is a treasure for those who love the works of Edith Wharton. Her short stories are amazing and enlightning. This book does a wonderufl job of collecting some of the most well known and loved short stories of Edith Wharton...
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a look at marriage 100 years ago,
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These well written stories combine manners, humor, and pathos. Most deal with the woman's role in society as it pertains to marriage at the turn of the century and into the 20's and 30's. Her perspectives on society have some relevance for any time.Very extensive vocabulary for someone who had no formal schooling.
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SHE was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the cameo-brooch divinity, humanized by a dimple that flowered in her cheek whenever anything was said possessing the outward attributes of humor without its intrinsic quality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Miss Wilpert, Miss Cress, Kate Spain, Donald Paul, Stephen Glenn, Miss Aldis, Miss Suffern, Aunt Mary, Miss Lambart, Emily Morland, Cassie Wilpert, Van Sideren, Anson Warley, Horace Fingall, Miss Macy, Catherine Glenn, Fifth Avenue, District Attorney, Paul Dorrance, Doctor Bonifant, Barbara Wake, Daunt Diana, Les Calanques, Susy Suffern New!
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SHE was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the cameo-brooch divinity, humanized by a dimple that flowered in her cheek whenever anything was said possessing the outward attributes of humor without its intrinsic quality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Miss Wilpert, Miss Cress, Kate Spain, Donald Paul, Stephen Glenn, Miss Aldis, Miss Suffern, Aunt Mary, Miss Lambart, Emily Morland, Cassie Wilpert, Van Sideren, Anson Warley, Horace Fingall, Miss Macy, Catherine Glenn, Fifth Avenue, District Attorney, Paul Dorrance, Doctor Bonifant, Barbara Wake, Daunt Diana, Les Calanques, Susy Suffern New!
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- The Custom of the Country (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics) by Edith Wharton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Age Of Innocence (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Age of Innocence (Dodo Press) by Edith Wharton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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