![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wharton proceeded to deal it out to a society she understood to be a narrow slice of the American scene. Henry James, while praising the historical reenactments and Italian setting of Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision, crisply advised her “in favor of an American subject.” The Master proposed she “Do New York,” and Mrs. The House of Mirth is a novel of New York society, the world she never completely discarded, though she declared she had given it up. It will soon be ninety years since Edith Wharton made her agreement with Scribner's Magazine to finish, and publish in serial form, a work which she had found troubling. What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low and horribly cruel works of nature! - Charles Darwin ![]()
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