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Honestly, I read about half of these. I did really enjoy Roman Fever and Xingu.
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A Virago Modern Classic These stories - all powerful moral analyses - demonstrate the true professionalism of Edith Wharton.
244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1934
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244 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1983 by Virago Pr
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9780860683735
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0860683737
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English
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Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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The first tale is wonderful and worth getting the book but after that the stories felt too dated and upper class.
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My love of Wharton went head-to-head with my dislike of short stories, and the dislike won. I think it must be how, in short stories, something pivotal has to happen so fast that it feels artificial to me. At least, that's how "Roman Fever" felt. Great title and premise, but the bare-all conversation of the two middle-aged ladies felt forced, and the "twist" too contrived. I didn't try the other stories...
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I had a blast reading this collection. Wharton skewers upper class society and its contrivances brilliantly. She wrote these stories between 1899 and 1934 and I preferred the later stories. Roman Fever (1934) is a masterpiece.
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You can't go wrong here. My favorite story was After Holbein, in which two twilight-years social scenesters meet for a dinner party. I don't want to give anything away, but it was a perfect gem of a story, sad and funny, with every character given a real personality in such a short space.
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Another solid selection by Edith Wharton.
Of the 8, I had previously read 3 in another collection.
The title entry, Roman Fever, appears to be the overwhelming favorite.
A story of two widows, also lifelong friends, on a balcony in Rome,
talking about their two daughters, and their own young lives in Rome.
I found it interesting how so many readers were shocked by the ending.
After Holbein took some interesting twists and turns before settling into a very apt ending.
And in The Angel at the Grave, the triumph of a life not wasted.
Of the 8, I had previously read 3 in another collection.
The title entry, Roman Fever, appears to be the overwhelming favorite.
A story of two widows, also lifelong friends, on a balcony in Rome,
talking about their two daughters, and their own young lives in Rome.
I found it interesting how so many readers were shocked by the ending.
After Holbein took some interesting twists and turns before settling into a very apt ending.
And in The Angel at the Grave, the triumph of a life not wasted.
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Roman Fever and Other Stories includes eight intriguing, surprising and brilliant short stories. They describe the society of the time they were written, the changes that were going on, in a real but comical way. The stories are just the right length, they start kind of suddenly, without any introductions, so it takes a few pages to understand what´s happening and they end a bit suddenly as well, the reader has to figure out the solution on her/his own, which I quite liked. Wharton offered me exactly the kind of social criticism and drama that I enjoy reading about. I can´t wait to see what she can accomplish in a longer novel form.
If I´d have to choose my favorite stories they´d be Roman Fever, The Other Two, The Angel at the Grave and After Albein. Though it is extremely rare to come across such an evenly good collection - I very much liked each of the stories, there were no big differences in my enjoyment of them. So this truly was a fantastic way to get acquainted with a new author, one that I´ll most certainly read more from in the future!
If I´d have to choose my favorite stories they´d be Roman Fever, The Other Two, The Angel at the Grave and After Albein. Though it is extremely rare to come across such an evenly good collection - I very much liked each of the stories, there were no big differences in my enjoyment of them. So this truly was a fantastic way to get acquainted with a new author, one that I´ll most certainly read more from in the future!
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Excellent short story.
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