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Human Nature
| Content Provider | Faded Page |
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| Author | Edith Wharton |
| Description | This latest in the long canon of Mrs. Wharton's books is called "Human Nature", but in spite of a spacious and all-inclusive title it is actually devoted to the presentation in five short stories of a limited and familiar Whartonian gallery of character studies. Nearly half the volume is "Her Son." In it, one of those New York dowagers existing at present only in the pages of this author's fiction, seeks and apparently finds her illegitimate son, who has been brought up in Europe by foster parents. The depressing tale of her victimization by a group of adventurers is admirably told, with all of Mrs. Wharton's facile mastery and technique. The description of the rivalry between the two "mothers" is superbly ironical, and as always the author is at home in her handling of the European scene, and the expatriate character. "The Day of the Funeral" is sombre, "A Glimpse" an interesting study in artistic temperament, "Joy in the House" and "Diagnosis" satiric tragedies of modern married lif |
| Page Count | 144 |
| File Size | 776351 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
| Publisher Date | 1933-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | fiction short stories |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Book |
