Lark Writes...on books and life

  "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 rou...

Ethan Frome drove in silence ... he seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was war...

Edith Wharton was a keen observer of society and a chronicleer of her times. There's an elegance and a clarity to her writing that mak...

An Edith Wharton novel should be savored, not merely read. But then I'm biased. I've been a fan of Edith Wharton since I first saw T...