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Roman Fever and Other Stories Paperback - 1997
by Wharton, Edith
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- Paperback
These short works display Wharton's talent as a satirist "skilled at dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social constrictions" (Cythina Griffin Wolfe, from the Introduction).
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- Title Roman Fever and Other Stories
- Author Wharton, Edith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 6/13/1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9780684829906U
- ISBN 9780684829906 / 0684829908
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs, Americans - Travel - Europe
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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FROM the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well-cared-for middle age moved across the lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant and, leaning on its parapet, looked first at each other, and then down on the outspread glories of the Palatine and the Forum, with the same expression of vague but benevolent approval.