For Edith Wharton, love is a difficult thing. Her books depict this idea with stunning humanity, but they are almost overshadowed by the cutting sadness of her real life letters. An understanding of both of these can give us an incredibly vivid and powerful perspective on her life.
Text editions used in video:
Quotes in Segoe Script are from The Letters of Edith Wharton, Collected by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis
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ISBN: 0684185857
ISBN13: 9780684185859
Quotes in Courier New are from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton From Barnes & Noble classics (I could not find this edition online)
ISBN 1-56619-676-0
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton From Scribner Paperback Fiction: (Simon and Schuster)
ISBN13: 978-0-684-84237-0
ISBN10: 0-684-84237-8
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Photograph of writer Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Cabinet photograph. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University.
There are some slight differences between the voiceover quotes and the written quotes. In these circumstances, the written script is always text accurate (except when translated from French.)
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