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Edith Wharton
American writer Edith Wharton authored numerous novels, as well as short stories, poems, essays, and travel books. In her novels she explored the suffering caused by changing economic forces and Victorian-era social codes. Her important works include The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), and The Age of Innocence (1920).
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Novel; United States (Culture); American Literature: Prose; Wharton, Edith Newbold
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