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Historical photographic portraitE. F. Cooper, Newport, Rhode Island; cropped reproduction · Public domain

Edith Wharton

Wharton’s narrator and Ellen Olenska expose a gap between social kindness and permission to speak honestly. Read the opera’s elaborate convention beside Ellen’s complaint, while distinguishing satire and dialogue from direct instructions.

1862 AD – 1937 AD · 108 collected ↗