Ваша оценкаEdith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'.
It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recentl...
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Аноним17 мая 2017 г.She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.
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The habit of solitude had given him a passion for the printed page, and if he could have found a book anywhere--any kind of a book--he would have forgotten the long hours and the empty house."
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Her husband stood looking at her coldly and curiously, as though she were some alien apparition his eyes had never before beheld.
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