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Love and Death in Edith Wharton's Fiction.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Love and death in Edith Wharton's fiction.

Farwell, Tricia M.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2006

162 pages

$63.95

Hardcover

Modern American literature; new approaches; v.48

PS3545

Farwell (advertising and public relations, Morehead State U.) examines major prose by Wharton to find clues about this complex author's struggles with differing notions of love and its connection with death. Farwell analyzes the concepts of eros and thantos within such works as Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, Summer, The Buccaneers, The Glimpses of ...

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