A New England Adam Bede

library. The librarian is "a waif brought from the mountain in her infancy." The
architect suggests a rose window for the rear wall of the building to give it
that the reader is unconscious of anything of this kind from beginning to end
-- the story is all."
As an example of Mrs. Wharton's gift for picturization this critic offers us
survival of the fittest. It is the play of the primitive passions amid the
operation of the social law that to those who have every social advantage more
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A New England "Adam Bede"
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fierce -- that is to say, in physical character and implications -- compared
with anything in the stories of Mr. Howells or Henry James. Maupassant was not
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ventilation and relieve it of the damp and stuffiness of a vault. One afternoon
the little librarian escapes from this vault, runs up the hillside and lies on
months, or three at the most, for the main part, and confined within a single
county, are of the most powerful and violent kind -- rank, shocking, and
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1917
Literary Digest 55, 4 Aug. 1917: 37.
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to summer visitors from Springfield and other nearer flourishing towns with
their foreign operatives. Of the novelist's method this critic observes:
the same scene when the young architect from the city visits a maiden lady who
is the one rich resident of the village and the sole patroness of the public
more cruel. The wonder of the art with which they have been assembled is that
they seem necessary, inevitable, almost commonplace, so naturally and
the ridge, the rounding of pale green cones on countless spruce branches, the
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shall be given, while from those who have none, and never have had any, shall
be taken even that which they have. The events, tho comprest within two
Boston Transcript. The concise and gentle title "Summer" may suggest to the
casual eye that the book is for hammock reading, but it is far from being of
A NEW ENGLAND "ADAM BEDE"
She Pictures New England Decay
Pitiless in the perfect freedom of her art, Mrs. Wharton shows us how full
"Summer" always is of flies "crossing in the sunshine."
the ridge above a small hollow, and, to quote the novelist --
"her face prest to the earth and the warm currents of the grass running
through her. Directly in her line of vision a blackberry branch laid its frail
their population." The characters of "Summer" are the victims of the social
decay of one of these towns, and the incidents are the reactions of the natives
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the development of character and episode. All that happens seems inevitable --
and hopeless! It is the ruthless working out of the struggle for existence and
SOCIAL DECAY in a Massachusetts village is the background of Mrs. Edith
Wharton's latest novel, which is likened to "Adam Bede" by a contributor to the
white flowers and blue-green leaves against the sky. Just beyond, a tuft of
sweet fern uncurled between the beaded shoots of the grass, and a small yellow
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