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A companion to Brookner's first selection of Wharton stories ( LJ 4/15/90), this second volume includes 14 less-familiar tales published between 1895 and 1933. They are brilliant, witty, and insightful, clearly showing Wharton's solid understanding of human nature, with all its ambiguities and contradictions, and the upper-class social milieu of her time, with all its constraints and conventions. Brookner's selections are also available in the fine two-volume Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1968), edited by Wharton expert R.W.B. Lewis, but that collection is out of print and libraries lacking it should certainly acquire this one. Wharton's short stories are even better than her novels and belong in virtually every school, public, and academic library.-- Peter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mich.
Genre: Literary Fiction
A companion to Brookner's first selection of Wharton stories ( LJ 4/15/90), this second volume includes 14 less-familiar tales published between 1895 and 1933. They are brilliant, witty, and insightful, clearly showing Wharton's solid understanding of human nature, with all its ambiguities and contradictions, and the upper-class social milieu of her time, with all its constraints and conventions. Brookner's selections are also available in the fine two-volume Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1968), edited by Wharton expert R.W.B. Lewis, but that collection is out of print and libraries lacking it should certainly acquire this one. Wharton's short stories are even better than her novels and belong in virtually every school, public, and academic library.-- Peter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mich.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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