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Gary H. Lindberg

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The Making of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: A Biography. By R. W. B. Lewis. Harper and Row. $15. A CHARACTERISTIC, if apocryphal, story of Edith Wharton is this: she was being shown through the house of an opulent neighbor, who remarked, "And this I call my Louis Quinze room [...]