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Title:Roman Fever and Other Stories
Author:Edith Wharton
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 304 pages
Published:June 13th 1997 by Scribner (first published 1934)
Categories:Short Stories. Classics. Fiction. Literature. American. Academic. School. Cultural. Italy
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Roman Fever and Other Stories Paperback | Pages: 304 pages
Rating: 4.1 | 1821 Users | 97 Reviews

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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).

Roman fever (1934)
Xingu (1911)
The other two (1904)
Souls belated (1899)
The angel at the grave (1901)
The last asset (1904)
After Holbein (1928)
Autres temps (1911)

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Original Title: Roman Fever
ISBN: 0684829908 (ISBN13: 9780684829906)
Edition Language: English


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I'm disappointed, these stories don't resonate or stay with me. Did I not notice before that Wharton is a bit mean-spirited and cynical, and certainly about marriage? Her own was strange as I learned at The Mount last summer!But thankfully after discussing the stories with my book club this week, I have a better handle on them and on Wharton's skill and intentions.

"Roman Fever" is one of my most favorite short stories. I love the zing at the end.

Wharton is a master to be read slowly and savored. Clearly, she was a woman born 100 years before her time, chafed by the rules society placed on her. I can feel her struggling like a bird captured in a cage. I have yet to find an American author that describes the restrictions of High Society better. Frankly, it's chilling. Sadly, I also found threads of current day realties in Xingu. It seems somethings are timeless.Loved, loved, loved this book .

The short story Roman Fever first appeared in 1934 although this particular collection wasnt published until 1964 these stories come from across the long period in which Edith Wharton was writing. I assume, therefore, that these stories probably do appear in collections first published during Whartons lifetime.The title story of this collection also appears in The Persephone book of short stories memorable for its final line it is the perfect story to start off this little collection, and one

Wharton's writing is so sharp and modern seeming if you changed the setting and period details much of it would work today with it's brilliant psychological observations. I particularly loved the story Xochi. Like any book of stories I didn't love every one but many were terrific.

Excellent short story.

After the blood and guts of Blood Meridian , I needed to add a little civilization back into my reading life - and nobody does over-civilization like Edith Wharton. Whether they meet the challenge by laughing, crying, or overdosing on exhaustion and sleeping pills, her characters are beset on all sides by the constrictions of unimaginative convention - a force with which McCarthy's cowboys are entirely untroubled.I have a mixed history with Wharton; I found The House of Mirth overwrought, and