Crucial Instances |
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Author:
| Wharton, Edith |
ISBN: | 978-1-4921-0285-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $6.99 |
Book Description:
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An excerpt from a review in
THE BOOK BUYER, A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature: IT is not praise too unqualified to say that of all the new spring books, none is more artistic in material and in make-up than Edith Wharton's
Crucial Instances. "The Greater Inclination" gave the same evidence of subtle analysis of character, literary distinction, and grasp of the situation, but with more consciousness of manner. The thought in reading the first...
More DescriptionAn excerpt from a review in THE BOOK BUYER, A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature:
IT is not praise too unqualified to say that of all the new spring books, none is more artistic in material and in make-up than Edith Wharton's Crucial Instances. "The Greater Inclination" gave the same evidence of subtle analysis of character, literary distinction, and grasp of the situation, but with more consciousness of manner. The thought in reading the first book of stories was, "How well the author does this sort of thing;" but after reading this second group, the comment is, " How well she has done it." The difference in the tense of the verb is indication of progress in the art-progress towards that perfection of style which leaves the reader conscious of the manner of telling only after the story is told. The epithets which might be applied to Mrs. Wharton's book are almost foregone conclusions. No dissenting voice appears to have been lifted against her tacit claim to a place in the front rank of short-story writers. "The Duchess at Prayer" is of the purest ray serene. What could exceed the exquisite art of the end of that story? "The Confessional" contains the only conspicuous flaw in the book. It is not probable that a dying priest, who had great difficulty in talking, should be able to tell a story almost fifty printed pages long. But the exigencies of the plot demand this effort from the poor man.