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Every so often, I feel that I need to read a classic, as if to fulfill some internal command to pay equal attention to the "canon." Admittedly, sometimes the canon appears in the form of the 1001 books to before you die, etc. So, this month Edith Wharton executes this dictate.
This is the fourth Wharton book I have read and I am starting to notice a pattern, Wharton writes about characters that are doomed, DOOMED, DOOMED! I wonder if all her books have some element of this: a main character who f ...more
This is the fourth Wharton book I have read and I am starting to notice a pattern, Wharton writes about characters that are doomed, DOOMED, DOOMED! I wonder if all her books have some element of this: a main character who f ...more
Wonderful story of love and betrayal. Beautiful writing.
Feb 10, 2013
Jennifer
marked it as to-read
