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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880612
Author:Joanne Greenberg

Letters of Edith Wharton Edited by R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis. Scribner's. $29.95.

A person's letters reveal her even when she may not wish them to do so. As the geologist and the painter looking at the same mountain will see different aspects of it, what the writer of a letter chooses for a subject and where she stands in relation to the subject give special insight into the writer's personality and view of the world.

R. W. B. and Nancy Lewis, helpful editors of Edith Wharton's letters, remind us that Wharton lived at the end of the letter-writing generations of the middle and upper ...

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