About this title: An Edith Wharton and Henry James pairing explores 'reality' in two classic tales. Using shades of irony to capture moments of surprise and sadness, Edith Wharton and Henry James play with reality - in the work of a portrait artist and in the secret love of a 'fallen' woman for her daughter. Two cousins, one a well-to-do adoptive mother and the other a poor woman whose child knows her only as 'Aunt Chatty', vie for the girl's affection in Wharton's surprisingly explicit novella. James explores reality and illusion when an artist hires an aristocratic couple, who have fallen on hard times, to ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Feminist Pr
Date Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN-13:9781558615762ISBN:1558615768
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781558615762ISBN:1558615768
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 152 pages. Explores two tales "the old maid" and "the real thing". (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: FEMINIST PR
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781558615762ISBN:1558615768
Description: New. Using shades of irony to capture moments of surprise and sadness, Edith Wharton and Henry James play with reality-in the work of a portrait artist and in the secret love of a "fallen" woman for her daughter. The author of over forty books, Edith Whar... read more
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