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The Edith Wharton: Great Classic Library
(Paperback, 1994)
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Author: Edith Wharton
Wharton's nonfiction in this collection includes book reviews, introductions to editions of her own ...
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Synopsis
Wharton's nonfiction in this collection includes book reviews, introductions to editions of her own works, eulogies, and several incisive critical studies, including "The Vice of Reading"--which argues that reading is not a boring duty but an imaginative skill--"The Criticism of Fiction"--which defends French formalist fiction--and essays on realism in fiction and on the vagaries of literary taste.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "On a January evening in the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in "Faust" at the Academy of Music in New York."
Industry Reviews
"By the side of the absolute mastery of plot, character and style displayed in her latest novel, 'The House of Mirth' seems almost crude. Edith Wharton is a writer who brings glory on the name America, and this is her best book. It is one of the best novels of the twentieth century and looks like a permanent addition to literature."
New York Times - L. Phelps (10/20/1920)
"For Edith Wharton...there was no genuine and honorable and emotionally fulfilling alternative to the social order...To defy the social ethic was to disturb the foundation of society...But only an imagination that could feel the enormous temptation to do so--had felt it deeply, perhaps, in her own passional life--...could write as compelling an account of both the lure and the danger as 'The Age of Innocence'."
R. W. B. Lewis
"There are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major'--and Edith Wharton is one."
Gore Vidal
"Wegener provides not only an invaluable compilation of Wharton's uncollected critical writings but also a sound and thoroughly informed overview of Wharton's critical achievement."
Publisher's catalogue - R. W. B. Lewis
"Her essays are of interest chiefly because they enact the intellectual and cultural adventures of a woman of letters, disciplined perceiver of architecture, gardens and interior decoration, and reader of solid books in science and philosophy as well as belles-lettres....[T]hey disclose a novelist who...clung to...'final values' and traditional ways....[T]he critical essay wasn't the happiest medium for her playful severities."
New Republic - Daniel Aaron (01/20/1997)
"THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, beneath its fine surface, holds an abyss--the abyss of time, and the tragedy of human transience."
Updike
"Some of these pieces admirably display Wharton's high cultural standards, incisive critical eye, and conservative literary tastes, but many are works only the most devoted Whartonian would need to read."
Asimow
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 1990 - $17.55 Save 61%
Hardcover, 1986 - $8.87 Save 77%
Hardcover, 1997 - $1.63 Save 97%
Hardcover, 1994 - $0.84 Save 92%
Paperback, 1996 - $6.47 Save 53%
Hardcover, 1996 - $1.04 Save 91%
Audio, 2003 - $23.92 Save 8%
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Paperback, 2009 - $5.63 Save 48%
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