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Which of the following is one of Edith Wharton's New England novels?
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Which of the following best describes how the realism of Henry James and Edith Wharton differs from that of William Dean Howells?
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Which novel was not written by Edith Wharton?
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Which of the following novels was NOT authored by Edith Wharton?
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From The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton:
"She dropped her eyes to the immense bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley on her knee, and Newland Archer saw her white-gloved finger-tips touch the flowers softly. He drew a breathe of satisfied vanity..."
What is the name of the woman that brought Newland Archer's vanity such satisfaction?
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With which fellow author was Edith Wharton famously close?
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In Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" what is the name of Ethan's wife?
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Edith Wharton had the following romantic life:
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Which affluent New York family did Edith Wharton come from?
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"She sang, of course, 'M'ama!' and not 'he loves me,' since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
Who wrote it?
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Who was the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her novels?
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Which novelist called Oscar Wilde "an unclean beast" and "a fatuous cad" after meeting him?
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In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Newland Archer sends what type of flowers to Countess Olenska?
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In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Newland Archer is engaged to which character?
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In the novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton which character is percieved as the "innocent" one?
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The novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton was published in which year?
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton takes place in Italy.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton takes place in New York.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a novella.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Set against the backdrop of upper-class society during the time of??
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Who wrote "The Age of Innocence"?
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Which of these characters does NOT appear in the title of a novel by George Eliot?
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In the final pages of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, what is the only descriptive for Countess Olenska that Newland Archer will admit to his son, Dallas? That she was:
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In Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Archer's daughter marries whose son?
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In Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Mrs. Lemuel Struthers is the widow of a tycoon who made his fortune from...?
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Which one of these women novelists was NOT a good friend of Henry James?
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Which novelist was, according to Henry James, "both sweet and superior, and has a delightful expression in her large, long, pale, equine face. I had my turn at sitting beside her and being conversed with in a low, but most harmonious tone; and bating a tendency to 'aborder' only the highest themes I have no fault to find with her"?
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Which novelist left this caricature of one of Henry James' sentences after having had tea with him?
"My dear, they tell me, they tell me, they tell me, that you -- as indeed being your father's daughter, nay your grandfather's grandchild, the descendant, descendant of a century -- of a century -- of quill pen and ink, ink, in pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me ahmmm, that you, that you, that you write in short."
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Of whom did Virginia Woolf say:
"Of all the great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness"?
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Of whom does Q.D. Leavis complain here?
"She has none of that natural piety, that richness of feeling and sense of a moral order, of experience as a process of growth, in which George Eliot's local criticisms are embedded and which give the latter her large stature."
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