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The collection was a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Finalist, listed in the New York Times and Time magazine Best Fiction Books, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [8] It is listed #23 on The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list. [9]
Almost universally praised by critics, "Roman Fever" earned a place in An Edith Wharton Treasury (1950) [5] and The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton (1958). [6] It is the title story of Roman Fever and Other Stories, [7] a collection of Wharton's writing originally published in 1964 and still in print. One of Wharton's most anthologized ...
"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
The post The 25 Best, Most Iconic Short Stories of All Time appeared first on Reader's Digest. Indisputable proof that good things come in small packages! These powerful short stories will stay ...
One of the surprising things about the same-sex-marriage story is that the take-up has, in terms of family life, not been as high as we might have expected. I think the jury's still out on how ...
In these edgy stories set in Appalachia and the Deep South, Black women face the full monty of modern life—weirdo predators, bogus jobs, ill-fated pregnancies, the nightmares of weight control ...
The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best books published in the English language since January 1, 2000. The list became a focal point of literary discourse.
"The Beggar Maid" in The New Yorker, 27 June 1977; [9] in Who Do You Think You Are?, 1978; in 78: Best Canadian Stories, 9–42; in Best Canadian Short Stories (1981), 96–121. [8] (republished in 2006/ 2008) "The Children Stay" in The New Yorker, 22 December 1997, Extended summary, in The Love of a Good Woman, 1998 (republished in 2003, 2011 ...