Wharton's first full-length novel, "The Valley of Decision," is set in eighteenth-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the antireligi...
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Aug 03, 2009
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“The Valley of Decision” is Edith Wharton’s first long novel, being published in 1902 after her two collections of shorter works, “The Greater Inclination” and “Crucial Instances”, and the novella “The Touchstone”. It is an impressive work, and Wharton’s writing is outstanding as usual. The scope and detail are there, but the execution is not quite up to the level which she would later attain.
“The story takes place in the later part of the 18th century Italy, and focuses on the l More...
“The story takes place in the later part of the 18th century Italy, and focuses on the l More...
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