LEAVING TANGIER
To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and
three hours later to land in a country without
a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger
of the repletest sight-seer.
The sensa...
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Biography EssayWhile at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the mas...
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Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I.Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan...
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During the early decades of the twentieth century--at a time when New York City could ban women from smoking in public--one American woman published works which discussed love outside of marriage, sca...
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The breadth of Edith Wharton's achievement makes definition of her place in literary history difficult. For fifty years she wrote prolifically, and her audience ranged from scholars to readers of popu...
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Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that...
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While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particul...
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Although Edith Wharton is better known as a novelist than a short-story writer, she was in fact writing and publishing stories well before her debut as a novelist in 1902. Her first published story ...
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Henry James observed in an August 1902 letter to Edith Wharton's sister-in-law, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, that Wharton "must be tethered in native pastures, even if it reduces her to a back-yard in New Y...
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Driss Benzekri, a former political prisoner who later headed a truth commission in Morocco, has died, a former colleague and fellow detainee said Monday. He was 57.Benzekri died here Sunday of comp...
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Twelve Islamic militants were convicted of terrorism-related charges, including eight with alleged ties to al-Qaida who had volunteered to fight in Iraq, Morocco's official news agency reported.The...
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Rabat, Morocco (dpa) - The Islamist Party of Justice and
Development (PJD) was Saturday expecting to increase its
representation in the Moroccan parliament without making th...
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Caught in the middle of the Moroccan government's delicate balancing act with Islam, magazine editor Driss Ksikes came out of court a convicted _ yet relieved _ man. Prosecutors wanted him and a co...
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This could have been the election that ousted Morocco's secular ruling class from power, giving Islamists unprecedented power in a country where Muslim women in T-shirts sip wine on the streets alo...
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Two brothers strapped with explosives blew themselves up near the U.S. consulate Saturday and Moroccan officials said they had discovered a broader suicide bombing conspiracy, stoking new fears of ...
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The Renault SA-Nissan Motor Co. group said Saturday it will
construct an automobile manufacturing plant in Morocco which will be
capable of producing 400,000 vehicles a year.
Morocco's Pri...
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Madrid (dpa) - Spain wants to bring a Moroccan man to trial in his
country for involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, for which
21 people have already been sentenced...
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