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The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Electronic Edition. book cover

The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Electronic Edition.

ISBN: 978-1-57085-059-2
Language: English
MARC Records


Edith Wharton. Detail: Photograph taken in Newport, Rhode Island. Image courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Cassie. What’s the matter with you, anyhow? Was it your fault if a tramp got into the house when we was all out, and hit your father over the head to steal his money? Twenty times I’d told him the catch of the front-door lock wouldn’t work, and he was too mean to have the locksmith in to fix it. And him the richest man in Cayuga... That wasn’t your fault was it?

Kate. (sobbing.) No... no...

Cassie. Well, don’t act as if it was, then. You know when he was asleep a foghorn wouldn’t have woke him up.

Volume 1. Plays, Kate Spain

Wharton, Edith. The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton. Edited by Laura Rattray. 2 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009.

  • Vol. 1. Plays: Introduction; Editorial Note; Edith Wharton as Playwright; The Man of Genius; Untitled; The Arch; The Necklace; Kate Spain; Plays: Appendix
  • Vol. 2. Novels and Life Writing; Introduction; Editorial Note; Fast and Loose; Disintegration; Literature; Life and I; "Quaderno dello Studente"; Bibliography


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