Description: Inventing the Real : The Old Maid/ The Real Thing, Paperback by Wharton, Edith; James, Henry, ISBN 1558615768, ISBN-13 9781558615762, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Ironies upon ironies unfold as two kindred writers (in life as well as art) and masters of the short story dance along the border between reality and appearance. Wharton explores the secret love of a woman for her illegitimate daughter, whom her married sister has adopted in an effort to save the mothers reputation and to allow her daughter to have a peaceful childhood. James probes a portrait painters art as he deals with a couple of threadbare aristocrats, who are seeking employment as his models. They are the real thing he is seeking to portraydenizens of drawing room societybut his work is thwarted when he discovers that plucky lower-class models are, in fact, far better able to take on the personae of a rarified class.
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Book Title: Inventing the Real : the Old Maid and the Real Thing
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Feminist Press at T.H.E. City University of New York
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Romance / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Item Length: 7 in
Author: Edith Wharton, Henry James
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: Two By Two Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
