false 767955 9 A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected here in <I>Roman Fever and Other Stories.</I> From her picture of erotic love and illegitimacy in the title story to her exploration of the aftermath of divorce detailed in "Souls Belated" and "The Last Asset," Wharton shows her usual skill "in dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social restrictions," as Cynthia Griffin Wolff writes in her introduction. <I>Roman Fever and Other Stories</I> is a surprisingly contemporary volume of stories by one of our most enduring writers.<P> 2536974 1970 Roman Fever and Other Stories total:387|5:149|4:158|3:75|2:5|1:0| 387 1612 502 25 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 00:04:17 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:59:43 -0700 2009 Blood Meridian, I needed to add a little civilization back into my reading life - and nobody does over-civilization like Edith Wharton. Whether they meet the challenge by laughing, crying, or overdosing on exhaustion and sleeping pills, her characters are beset on all si...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 18:23:22 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:04:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 30 15:21:37 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 15:21:37 -0700 2007 The lead into the story sets an uneasy tone of distance between the two women. The author begins the story by showing us the two mothers sitting on a terrace of a roman restaurant. The distance is well represented in the text by the careful word choice, fo...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 09 08:55:42 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 04:14:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 10:12:24 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 10:13:35 -0800 2009 Le meilleur que j'ai lu de Wharton pour le moment...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Thu Jun 11 04:26:45 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 04:31:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 16:18:14 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:18:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 09 08:09:22 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 08:09:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Dec 19 18:46:31 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 18:46:31 -0800 2008 2 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 11:16:28 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 17:50:36 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 06:32:27 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 06:07:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 14:23:32 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 14:23:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Feb 19 08:01:42 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 08:01:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Nov 18 15:36:52 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 06:47:57 -0800 2007
Edit: After reading the rest of the short stories, I've learned that enjoyable and slow are not incompatable, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 12:49:40 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 17:49:03 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Jun 28 07:20:45 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 09:29:47 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 18:31:38 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 09:14:30 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 18:31:38 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Mar 07 13:06:09 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 13:06:52 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Oct 20 08:24:53 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 08:48:04 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 08:24:53 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat May 05 11:09:47 -0700 2007 Sat May 05 11:10:15 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=767955