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Lost Edith Wharton WWI Story Published after a Century
The unfinished story shifts from New York society to a French chateau near battle lines, where civilians and soldiers mix as war sounds nearby.
- On Friday, The Strand Magazine released "The Men Who Saved," an unfinished and previously unpublished story by Edith Wharton, joining rare works by Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway in the publication.
- When World War broke out in 1914, Wharton lived in Paris and responded as a citizen and witness, establishing hostels for refugees and reporting from trenches for Scribner Magazine before channeling these experiences into fiction.
- American nurse Milly Arden attends a dinner party at the home of Fred and Madge Upshall, where she sits beside Capt. Sherman Wake, regarded by Mrs. Upshall as one of the "real people."
- Wake tells Arden about the "catastrophic horror and waste" he has witnessed, and when she asks if the guns rattle the windows, she responds, "Yes, they do," while gazing at an orchid displaced by the cannonade.
- Wharton scholar Julie Olin-Ammentorp noted the author's deep affinity for France, calling it "one of the greatest cultures in the world," though she remains unsure why Wharton never finished the manuscript believed written in 1918.
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A Rare Edith Wharton Story Is Unearthed
When World War I broke out in 1914, Edith Wharton's initial response was less as a storyteller in search of material than as a citizen and intrepid witness. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and other probing stories of New York society...
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A rare Edith Wharton story is unearthed about the gap between everyday life and the horrors of WWI
A rare Edith Wharton short story has just been published. It appears in the new issue of The Strand Magazine.
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