Volume 22, Number 18 · November 13, 1975
The Rescue of Edith Wharton
By Irvin Ehrenpreis
Edith Wharton: A Biography
by R.W.B. Lewis
Harper & Row, 592 pp., $15.00
Cunnilingus between father and daughter is an uncommon theme to engage the pen of a septuagenarian lady of fashion, even when she also happens to be a literary genius. If Edith Wharton detailed and preserved a vivid fantasy of incestuous passion around the time she was writing her autobiography, one may be excused for asking how it fits into the pattern of her family history.
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