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The Truth About Tristrem Varick

by Edgar Saltus

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1888
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Tristrem Varick is a young New Yorker of good family and large expectations, earnest where the people around him are worldly, and his story turns on love, friendship, and the weight of an inheritance he never asked for. Edgar Saltus threads betrayal and misplaced trust through the drawing rooms of fashionable society, moving toward the kind of dark reckoning he favored. The prose is elegant and faintly weary, more interested in disillusion than in comfort. Published in 1888, this was among the novels that built Saltus's reputation as America's great pessimist, admired for his style even by readers who found his outlook bleak. It rewards anyone curious about the cynical strain in late nineteenth-century American fiction.

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Edgar Saltus

Edgar Saltus (1855-1921) was an American writer known for elegant, cynical prose and a gloomy philosophy drawn from Schopenhauer. A fixture of literary New York in the Gilded Age, he produced novels, essays, and histories before turning to mysticism late in life.

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First published
1888
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
114
Language
English
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