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"Wharton attempted, and succeeded in, a dazzling variety of styles, from the fantastic to the realistic, from the satiric to the sentimental. Here are antiquarian themes--ghosts, fables, historical fantasies, and tales of crazed connoisseurs in love with the past. But here are also a number of incisive dissections of contemporary American and European customs. Wharton brought a new acuity to the debate between manners and morals. And she knew how to shape a story."Wharton, Edith is the author of 'Collected Stories, 1911-1937' with ISBN 9781883011949 and ISBN 1883011949.
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