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- Fast and Loose
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1977-00-00 | University of Virginia Press |  |
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- Blurb:
- Fast and Loose, Wharton"s first full-length work, was composed in 1876-77 when she was only 14, and although its thematic concern with social standing and individual happiness anticipates the novels of her maturity, its plotting and characterization clearly reveal the hand of a juvenile. The boldest and most original section, in fact, is outside the work itself. Her own harshest (and truest) critic, Wharton appended three "reviews," one of which reads: "Is not the author very, very like a sick-sentimental school-girl who has begun her work with a fierce and bloody resolve to make it as bad as certain popular fiction & has ended with a blush, & a general erasure of all the naughty words which her modest vocabulary could furnish?"