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| | | BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON | | | | | | | | [_12mo, $1.25_] | | | | Sanctuary | | | | ILLUSTRATIONS BY W. APPLETON CLARK | | | | “This is a striking little book—striking in its simplicity | | and penetration, its passion and restraint.”—London | | Times. | | | | | | | | [_12mo, $1.25_] | | | | The Touchstone | | | | “Its characters are real, their motives and actions | | thoroughly human. And the author’s art is sufficient to | | bring out the strength of every situation.”—_The Argonaut._ | | | | | | | | [_12mo_, $1.50] | | | | The Descent of Man | | | | CONTENTS | | | | The Descent of Man | | The Mission of Jane | | The Other Two | | The Quicksand | | The Dilettante | | The Reckoning | | Expiation | | The Lady’s Maid’s Bell | | A Venetian Night’s Entertainment | | | | “It is, of course, the extraordinary directness with which | | Mrs. Wharton’s probe goes to the spot under inspection, the | | deftness with which she is able to bring to the light of day | | what we had hidden even from ourselves, that account for the | | admiration with which we regard her short stories.”—London | | Academy. | | |
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| | | BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON | | | | | | | | [_8vo, $2.50 net._ Postage 17 cents] | | | | Italian Backgrounds | | | | ILLUSTRATED BY PEIXOTTO | | | | CONTENTS | | | | An Alpine Posting Inn | | A Midsummer Week’s Dream | | The Sanctuaries of the Pennine | | Alps | | What the Hermits Saw | | A Tuscan Shrine | | Sub Umbra Liliorum | | March in Italy | | Picturesque Milan | | Italian Backgrounds | | | | “Belongs in that small class of books of observation which | | are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation; | | which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an | | impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive | | atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic | | value is seen by those who have the gift of sight.”—_The | | Outlook._ | | | | | | | | [_12mo, $1.25 net_] | | | | The Joy of Living | | | | (_Es lebe das Leben_) | | | | A play in five acts, by HERMANN SUDERMANN. Translated from | | the German by EDITH WHARTON. | | | | | | | | [_Large 8vo, $2.50 net_] | | | | The Decoration of Houses | | | | With 56 full-page illustrations, by EDITH WHARTON and OGDEN | | CODMAN, JR. | | |
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Transcriber’s Note:
Most inconsistencies in hyphenation and spelling have been left as in the original. Missing or wrong punctuation has been added or corrected, where it is obvious (missing punctuation is often a result of the scanning/OCR process). In one case, a missing letter has also been added, and the following misspellings have been corrected: involuntairly to involuntarily, sensastions to sensations, Wetsmore to Westmore, Cilfton to Clifton, It to If
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