Details

Subject(s)

• American fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

• 2x2 (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• The 2x2 series

Contains

• Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Old maid. [Browse]
• James, Henry, 1843-1916. Real thing. [Browse]

Summary note

"Serial ironies unfold as two simpatico literary masters delineate the evanescent border between appearance and reality. Wharton explores the relationship between a "fallen" woman and the cousin who has raised her illegitimate child. It is a story with a remarkably modern sensibility that asks, "Who is the real mother?" James dissects the meaning of authenticity when a portrait painter discovers that a threadbare but aristocratic couple serving as his models thwarts his artistic ambitions, while two lower-class models easily transform themselves into "the real thing.""--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 10).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction / by Mary Ann Caws
• The old maid / Edith Wharton
• The real thing / Henry James.

Other title(s)

• Old maid.
• Real thing.

ISBN

• 9781558615762 (pbk.)
• 1558615768 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007033832

OCLC

165957855

RCP

H - S

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