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"Not Precisely War Stories": Edith Wharton's short fiction from the great war.

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From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 19950922
Author:Olin-Ammentorp, Julie

Edith Wharton's 'Fighting France' clearly seems to reflect the author's sense of disturbed, transformed reality, a shaken sense of the unreality of a world war, and her struggle and inability to come to terms with with it. The war which she had at first found exciting, became a large and burdensome part of her life than she had expected. Her post-war works of fiction and nonfiction both in content and style were to reflect this unresolved struggle and shaken sense of reality.

On June 28, 1915, Edith Wharton wrote to her publisher Charles Scribner regarding both her experiences in wartime ...

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