A rare Edith Wharton story is unearthed about the gap between everyday life and the horrors of WWI

NEW YORK (AP) — When World War I broke out in 1914, Edith Wharton’s initial response was less as a storyteller in search of material than as a citizen and intrepid witness. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The House of Mirth,” “The Custom of the Country” and other probing stories of New York society was […]