This author wrote a satirical story in which Harviss encourages Professor Linyard to produce morebestsellers despite the scientist's aversion to pseudoscience; that story's title references Darwin's tome onsexual selection.
This author wrote a satirical story in which Harviss encourages Professor Linyard to produce morebestsellers despite the scientist's aversion to pseudoscience; that story's title references Darwin's tome onsexual selection. Robert Elwell killed himself after being locked out of a promotion in the Blue Star Mine,and his vengeful spirit haunts the house at Lyng in this author's story "Aftermath," part of her Tales of Menand Ghosts. In her best-known short story, a woman reveals that she "had Barbara" from a one-night standwith Delphin, the husband of Alida Slade, having read a note instructing the two to meet at the Coliseum. Adisastrous party on the yacht Sabrina and a looming debt owed to Gus Trenor force the love interest ofLawrence Selden to kill herself in a novel by this author. For 10 points, name this author who drew onthemes from her stories "The Descent of Man" and "Roman Fever" to write novels like The House of Mirth.
This author wrote a satirical story in which Harviss encourages Professor Linyard to produce morebestsellers despite the scientist's aversion to pseudoscience; that story's title references Darwin's tome onsexual selection.
Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones]