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An Outsider To Bitter End, Edith Wharton

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930919
Author:Hillel Italie

NEW YORK At the end of World War I, France was in a mood for forgetting. More than a million soldiers were dead, another million wounded.

Even in the more affluent sections of Paris, where expatriate American author Edith Wharton lived, the present was too painful to consider. A cousin and two friends had been killed in battle.

Craving "days and days of healing silence," the author hurried to a chateau overlooking the Mediterranean. She wanted to work on a new book, a "momentary escape" to "the childish memories of a long-vanished America."

Its original title was Old New York; she soon ...

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