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What Edith knew:
Freeing Wharton from the master's shadow

By Elizabeth Lowry

Discussed in this essay:

Edith Wharton, by Hermione Lee. Vintage. 912 pages. $18.95 (paper).

Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters, by Edith Wharton. Everyman’s Library. 366 pages. $22.

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton. Everyman’s Library. 400 pages. $22.

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SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Wharton, Edith; Edith Wharton (Book); Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner sisters (Book); James, Henry; Lee, Hermione; Pictorial works; Relations with women; The age of innocence (Book); The house of mirth (Book); Women authors, American
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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry

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