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Title: The Letters of Edith Wharton by R. W. B. Lewis, Nancy Lewis, Edith Wharton ISBN: 0-02-034400-7 Publisher: Collier Books Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent selection by a top scholar
Comment: This book contains about 400 of Wharton's letters, out of about 4,000 extant. It is a careful selection, including "major" letters that are often quoted, and for the first time (other than in a small university publication), a substantial portion of her correspondence with Morton Fullerton, with whom she had an affair while in her mid-40s. That particular correspondence did not surface until the 1980s, and added an entirely new perspective on Wharton's life and work. Unfortunately, nearly all of her correspondence with two of her greatest friends, Henry James and Walter Berry, did not survive, and the absence is felt. I applaud the editors (one of whom wrote a Pulitzer prize winning bio of Wharton) for a selection that is very readable and never trite or repetitive (a big problem when dealing with letters in their entirety). Reading the letters after having read the bio, I found they added to my understanding of Wharton as a person and a writer.
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Title: Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis ISBN: 0880640200 Publisher: Fromm Intl Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The WRITING OF FICTION by Edith Wharton ISBN: 0684845318 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 08 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: A Backward Glance : An Autobiography by Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss ISBN: 0684847558 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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