Roman Fever and Other Stories

Name: Roman Fever and Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780684829906

ISBN-10: 0684829908

ISBN-13: 9780684829906

Edition: 1997

Authors: Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff

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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 Roman Fever and Other Stories. 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. Roman Fever and Other Stories is a…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 6/13/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction



Roman FeverXingu


The Other Two


Souls Belated


The Angel at the Grave


The Last Asset


After Holbein


Autres Temps