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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880724
Author:Jonathan Yardley

THE LETTERS OF EDITH WHARTON

Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis

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TO HAVE been Edith Wharton's friend must have been a rare joy and privilege. Though she was by most accounts a formidable figure, she was also a woman of incomparable vitality and open affection who rejoiced in "this wonderful adventure of living" and confessed herself "an incorrigible life-lover & life-wanderer & adventurer." She rejoiced in the presence of interesting people-she seems to have been a brilliant conversationalist-but did not require their actual company in order to enjoy them to ...

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