Wharton, Edith

Pages 129-130 Every Subject Must Contain within Itself Its Own Dimensions. In The Story and Its Writer. Wharton, Edith. 4th ed. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston Bedford Books, 1995. 

In this passage, written in 1925, writer Edith Wharton distinguishes between subjects suitable for short stories and those suitable for novels. 

Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante in Artemis to Actaeon... 

This passage, which could have been used as an epigraph by Proust or Edith Wharton, reflects very much an upper-class attitude. 

Chart the conflicts among the characters of Edith Wharton s Ethan Frome. Or, write an essay explaining what the novel reveals about the author s view of human nature. 

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The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton edited by Millicent Bell... 

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