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A languid sense of melancholy acting as the bulwark against a factitious sense of propriety and 'happiness', and we can sense where this is going. It's sad, it's gilded, and it's distinctly American.
I loved this book.
Wharton's style, though less rosy than Henry James', cuts deeper and yields more in terms of substance and insight; that, in essence, is the key to this book's greatness. It is every bit a 'novel' in the sense that it is 'fiction' but taking together Wharton's own background (auth ...more
I loved this book.
Wharton's style, though less rosy than Henry James', cuts deeper and yields more in terms of substance and insight; that, in essence, is the key to this book's greatness. It is every bit a 'novel' in the sense that it is 'fiction' but taking together Wharton's own background (auth ...more
Look, is this one of Tom Shippey's Great American Novels that examines Anglo-American class obsessions via "genteel adultery in East Massachusetts"? Yes. But it's a very well-written example of that kind of novel.
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