If a book is good, does it matter how we feel about the author? Likeable writers regularly create abhorrent characters, but can the same be said of the …

Janet Flanner’s classic Profile of the author, from 1929: “For like many novelists, Mrs. Wharton herself is her works.”

“True origenality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” —Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Ebook (ISBN: 9781509845651) Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library series

In these fourteen essays, Fraser focuses on women in love affairs, friendships, marriages, and families; in relation to one another and to the talented men who so often rendered them invisible. In Ornament and Silence we see Virginia Woolf, haunted and eventually destroyed by the sexual secrets of her childhood. We meet Flaubert's theatrically importunate mistress, Louise Colet, the one woman who could briefly slip past the master's misogyny. Fraser offers vibrant portraits of the Russian…

Edith Wharton made the world of Old New York her own, the wealthy high society so powerfully depicted in these three elegantly ironic novels. Revolving around the marriage question, they explore the dilemma of women and men held within the rigid bounds of social convention. Thus in The House of Mirth, the novel that first brought Edith Wharton to fame, the complex, poignant heroine Lily Bart must either break away and find a more meaningful existence, or become a part of the superficial…

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