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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton,  Part 2

By Edith Wharton

2019-09-12 20:31:52

Excerpt........It leaped out at her suddenly, like a grin out of the dark, that they had often called England so little—“such a confoundedly hard place to get lost in.” A confoundedly hard place to get lost in! That had been her husband’s ph ... Read more
Excerpt........It leaped out at her suddenly, like a grin out of the dark, that they had often called England so little—“such a confoundedly hard place to get lost in.” A confoundedly hard place to get lost in! That had been her husband’s phrase. And now, with the whole machinery of official investigation sweeping its flash-lights from shore to shore, and across the dividing straits; now, with Boyne’s name blazing from the walls of every town and village, his portrait (how that wrung her!) hawked up and down the country like the image of a hunted criminal; now the little compact, populous island, so policed, surveyed, and administered, revealed itself as a Sphinx-like guardian of abysmal mysteries, staring back into his wife’s anguished eyes as if with the malicious joy of knowing something they would never know! Less

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File size120.913 KB
Print pages112
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1406566024
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Edith Wharton
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Edith Wharton (Jan 24, 1862 – Aug 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to realist...

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