Dec 27, 2009

The Letters of Edith Wharton | The Letters of Edith Wharton

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Author: Edith Wharton
First Published: 1988
Type of Work: Letters
Time of Work: 1874-1937
Setting: The United States, England, the Continent, and Africa
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Letters
Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Friendship, Novelists, Death or dying, Creative process, World War I
Locales: Africa, France, United States, England, Italy

In spite of the unfair yet abiding assessment of Edith Wharton as a second-rate Henry James, she occupies a unique position in the history of American literature. She is what James himself might have called “the real thing,” a bluestocking artist whose novel The House of Mirth (1905) alone would place her in the first ranks of the best American writers.

Wharton was an indefatigable correspondent, writing as many as six letters a day for long periods of her life. It is no surprise to find that more than four thousand of her letters are extant and available for study. R....

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The Letters of Edith Wharton | The Letters of Edith Wharton

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