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"Edith Wharton's Journey" is a radio adaptation, for the NPR series Radio Tales, of the short story "A Journey" from Edith Wharton's collection The Greater Inclination. The American singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega paid homage to Edith Wharton in her song "Edith Wharton's Figurines" on her 2007 studio album Beauty & Crime .
In the 1920s, American Literature the motif of escape is ever present, and in Wharton's Twilight Sleep this theme drives a melodramatic plot.Twilight sleep was a medical procedure in which pregnant women would be given a mixture of the drugs scopolamine and morphine as a way to simultaneously reduce the pain of childbirth and allow the mother to forget the experience altogether.
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The Valley of Decision. Originally published 1902. Wharton's debut novel, the Valley of Decision, follows Odo Valsecca, a young man in northern Italy in the late 1700s.As the Cambridge Companion ...
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