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... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
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Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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