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The Wharton School

Brenda Wineapple
May 10, 2007   |    This article appeared in the May 28, 2007 edition of The Nation.
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A new biography describes how Edith Wharton transformed her obsessions into stories of loss, regret and entrapment.

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Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple is the author, most recently, of White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth...

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Brenda Wineapple
May 10, 2007   |    This article appeared in the May 28, 2007 edition of The Nation.
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