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Edith Wharton: I have never...

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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

Source: Letter to Upton Sinclair, 19 Aug 1927; in The Letters of Edith Wharton, 1988.
-- Edith Wharton, (Jan 24 1862-1937), US novelist, short-story writer; She wrote about upper-class New York society in Ethan Frome, 1911 and The Age of Innocence, 1920.


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