Name: The Greater Inclination
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Author: Ravell ; Wharton, Edith
ISBN: 9781536994452

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Physical Book

Author

Edith Wharton

Illustrated by

Ravell

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

148

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9781536994452

Synopsis "The Greater Inclination"

The eight stories which make up The Greater Inclination (John Lane, 8vo, pp. 254, 6s), deal with various aspects of highly civilised life in the States. The preciosity of the nomenclature in "The Muse's Tragedy" prepares us for an essay in the more attenuated, if hardly the higher, humanities.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton was born in New York in 1862. Her maiden name was Edith Newbold Jones. Her family was upper class, comparable to European aristocracy, and consequently she received a meticulous private education. In 1907, she settled in France, where she became a disciple and friend of Henry James. Her most famous work is The Age of Innocence, published in 1920 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. She is considered the most brilliant American novelist of her generation, admired by intellectuals of the stature of Henry James, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, and Ernest Hemingway.

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