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Sunday, 22 April 2012 (and Tues. 24 April 2012): Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton Encore

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This week, one of the great American novelists of the early 20th century, Edith Wharton. She was born into a wealthy New York family 150 years ago, in 1862, during the American Civil War. Eleanor Wachtel speaks with biographer Hermione Lee about the life and work of this exemplar of New York's "Gilded Age."