I believe if I were dead, and anyone asked me to come back and witness for France, I should get up out of my grave to do it.' -Edith Wharton, 'Talk to American Soldiers' Edith Wharton was a keen observer of society and a chronicler of her times. There's an elegance and clarity to her writing that makes her stories thoughtful, biting, witty, (and yes) beautifully sad. Although Edith Wharton may be best known for her novels analyzing New York's upper crust, the author lived in France from 1907