The Early Short Fiction Of Edith Wharton Complete

Download or read book The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the library in question was the central, the pivotal “feature.” Mary Boyne and her husband, in quest of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair, who had successfully solved it in her own case; but it was not until they had rejected, almost capriciously, several practical and judicious suggestions that she threw it out: “Well, there’s Lyng, in Dorsetshire. It belongs to Hugo’s cousins, and you can get it for a song...FROM THE BOOKS.