- A previously unfinished and unpublished work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton, titled 'The Men Who Saved the World,' has emerged over a century after its creation, believed to have been penned in 1918.
- The story, which offers a poignant glimpse into the social disconnect prevalent during World War I, is slated to appear in the new issue of The Strand Magazine.
- Wharton, who resided in Paris during the Great War, was an active humanitarian, establishing workrooms and hostels for refugees and reporting from the trenches, experiences that permeated her fiction.
- The newly discovered narrative centers on an affluent couple in the French countryside who, convinced the war is progressing favorably, decide to resume their customary social gatherings.
- The story vividly dramatizes the chasm between civilian and military life through characters like American nurse Milly Arden and war hero Captain Sherman Wake, who highlights the 'catastrophic horror and waste' he has witnessed.
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Hidden for more than 100 years, this Edith Wharton story is finally being published
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