Edith Wharton's War Story
A Price - Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1989 - JSTOR
A Price
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1989•JSTOREdith Wharton's war story" Coming Home," first published in the De? cember number (1915)
of Scribners Magazine, met with immediate popular and critical acclaim. Anticipating the
public response by several weeks, Charles Scribner told Wharton,"'Coming Home'seems to
me by far the best war story which has yet appeared." 1 When it was reprinted the following
year in the collection Xingu and Other Stories, the reviewer for The New York Times singled
it out as" the most notable in the book":
of Scribners Magazine, met with immediate popular and critical acclaim. Anticipating the
public response by several weeks, Charles Scribner told Wharton,"'Coming Home'seems to
me by far the best war story which has yet appeared." 1 When it was reprinted the following
year in the collection Xingu and Other Stories, the reviewer for The New York Times singled
it out as" the most notable in the book":
Edith Wharton's war story" Coming Home," first published in the De? cember number (1915) of Scribners Magazine, met with immediate popular and critical acclaim. Anticipating the public response by several weeks, Charles Scribner told Wharton,"'Coming Home'seems to me by far the best war story which has yet appeared." 1 When it was reprinted the following year in the collection Xingu and Other Stories, the reviewer for The New York Times singled it out as" the most notable in the book":
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