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Reissued novel and a new film bring a revived interest in Edith Wharton. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19930908
Author:Fichtner, Margaria 

    Oh, how do you do, Mrs. Brown?'' said Mrs. Tomkins. ``If only I had known you were going to call I should have tidied up the drawing room.'' 
    But no, it would not do. Right at the start of her new novel, 11-year-old Edith Wharton had committed social treason. 
    ``Drawing rooms,'' Wharton's rebuking mother had explained to the tiny, subversive author, ``are always tidy.'' 
    But, even in the New York of the late 1800s, life was not tidy at all. Ambition, jealousy, turpitude, gullibility, prejudice and sloth all flourished among the privileged classes to which Wharton and her ...

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