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Edith Wharton at Home

Author : Richard Guy Wilson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933289
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton at Home written by Richard Guy Wilson and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic home, one can see the influence of Wharton’s inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount’s impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself. The Mount sits in the rolling landscape of the Berkshire Hills, with views overlooking Laurel Lake and all the way out to the mountains. At the turn of the century, Lenox and Stockbridge were thriving summer resort communities, home to Vanderbilts, Sloanes, and other prominent families of the Gilded Age. At once a leader and a recorder of this glamorous society, Edith Wharton stands at the pinnacle of turn of the twentieth-century American literature and social history. The Mount was crucial to her success, and the story of her life there is filled with gatherings of literary figures and artists. Edith Wharton at Home presents Wharton’s life at The Mount in vivid detail with authoritative text by Richard Guy Wilson and archival images, as well as new color photography of the restoration of The Mount and its spectacular gardens. "The Mount was to give me country cares and joys, long happy rides and drives through the wooded lanes of that loveliest region, the companionship of dear friends, and the freedom from trivial obligations, which was necessary if I was to go on with my writing. The Mount was my first real home . . . its blessed influence still lives in me." —Edith Wharton, 1934

The House of Mirth

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : McLeod & Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Mirth written by Edith Wharton and published by McLeod & Allen. This book was released on 1905 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton

Author : Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780547236308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton written by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and career of the American author, Edith Wharton.

Classical Principles for Modern Design

Author : Thomas Jayne
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934978
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Classical Principles for Modern Design written by Thomas Jayne and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interior designer and decorative arts historian Thomas Jayne takes on the redoubtable Edith Wharton and her co-author Ogden Codman, whose 1897 book The Decoration of Houses is acknowledged as the Bible of American interior design. Wharton and Codman advocated for classical simplicity and balance, replacing the excesses of the Gilded Age. In Jayne’s view, “The Decoration of Houses is the level-headed, indispensable book on the subject. It is not an overstatement to say that it is the most important decorating book ever written.” How much of Wharton and Codman’s advice and how many of their principles are still applicable today? In Classical Principles for Modern Design, Jayne argues that Wharton and Codman’s fundamental ideas about the proportion and planning of space create the most harmonious and livable interiors, whether traditional or contemporary. His authoritative and engaging text traces contemporary ideas about design elements and furnishing rooms back to Wharton and Codman and shows where his design approach coincides and where it diverges from their views. The book follows the chapter organization of The Decoration of Houses—chapters on walls, doors, windows and curtains, ceilings and floors, etc.—and adds important new perspectives on the design of kitchens and the use of color, both major subjects that Wharton and Codman did not address. Drawing on his own work at Jayne Design Studio, Jayne has selected elegant, traditional interiors that demonstrate these principles. Projects range from a restoration of historic eighteenth-century public rooms in Crichel House in Dorset, England, to a mountain retreat in the wilds of Montana to an array of luxurious New York City apartments and country houses in the Hudson Valley. Captured in lush photographs by Don Freeman and others, all speak to Thomas Jayne’s commitment to the primacy of function, quality, and simplicity, derived from the ancient tradition of classical design. As he says, “Tradition is not about what was. Tradition is now.”

Edith Wharton

Author : Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099358916
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

Author : Anne Trubek
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205812
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses written by Anne Trubek and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.

The Decoration of Houses

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Charles Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decoration of Houses written by Edith Wharton and published by Charles Scribner. This book was released on 1897 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144748052X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt, regret, and unrequited desires. Through her elegant prose and sharp wit, Wharton delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring themes of forbidden passions, societal constraints, and the persistent power of the past. Each setting serves as the backdrop for chilling encounters with the spectral realm. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton is a testament to Wharton's versatility as a writer. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she imbues her tales with atmospheric tension, challenging the reader to question what lies beyond our mortal existence.

Italian Backgrounds

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : London : Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Backgrounds written by Edith Wharton and published by London : Cape. This book was released on 1905 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Italian Backgrounds, Wharton hikes Volterra, sails to Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore to take in an incredible baroque water theatre and visits the convent of Saint Paul in Parma to see Correggio's frescoes. Her descriptions are so detailed, informed and analytical that her appreciation of Italian culture, history and art are evident. Also evident is her desire to educate her readers as to the importance of such details to travelers. Wharton includes readers in her travel dilemmas: should she continue to travel in the Swiss Alps or to go to the cities where there is art and architecture? She describes the geography she sees in terms of painter's landscapes. She sees a meadow as a perfect place for one of "Bonifazio's sumptuous picnics" while one drive looks out on a "pastoral of Giorgione's." She provides a historical, spiritual and artistic view of hermits and their hermitages. Some of the sights Wharton took in no longer exist, at least as they were when she visited. The Farnesse Theatre was bombed during WWII. Its present restoration does not do the original justice, even though it was in disrepair when Wharton saw it. Wharton's tours of Italy, €taken almost yearly during the span of her marriage, probably contributed to her creation of The Decoration of Houses with architect Ogden Codman, as she dedicates a whole chapter to the pleasing qualities of the Baroque architectural style. Many traditional Baroque elements were a critical part of the curriculum of the École des Beaux-Arts. The Beaux-Arts style was the emphasis Codman was known to place on his interior designs and decors.

The Smash-Up

Author : Ali Benjamin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593229665
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Smash-Up written by Ali Benjamin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart, sublime, and wickedly clever, The Smash-Up captures—then transcends—our current polarized moment “An exhilarating ride . . . hilarious . . . a modern and energetic story about a marriage on the skids.”—The New York Times Ethan has always been one of the good guys, and for years, nobody has appreciated this fact more than his wife, Zo. Until now. Jolted into activism by the 2016 election, Zo’s transformed their home into the headquarters for the local resistance, turning their comfortable decades-long marriage inside-out. Meanwhile, their boisterous daughter, Alex, grows wilder by the day. Ethan’s former business partner needs help saving the media company they’d co-founded. Financial disaster looms. Enter a breezy, blue-haired millennial making her way through the gig economy. Suddenly Ethan faces a choice unlike any he’s ever had to make. Unfolding over fivet urbulent days in 2018, The Smash-Up wrestles shrewdly with some of the biggest questions of our time: What, exactly, does it mean to be a good guy? What will it take for men to break the “bro code”? How does the world respond when a woman demands more? Can we ever understand another's experiences… and what are the consequences of failing to try? Moving, funny, and cathartic, this portrait of a marriage—and a nation—under strain is, ultimately, a magic trick of empathy, one that will make you laugh and squirm until its final, breathless pages.

Summer

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Summer written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first novels to deal honestly with a woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ethan Frome" shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.

Edith Wharton's Lenox

Author : Cornelia Brooke Gilder
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135178
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton's Lenox written by Cornelia Brooke Gilder and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband, Teddy, planned a defiantly classical villa, and she became a bestselling author with The House of Mirth in 1905. As a hostess, designer, gardener and writer, Wharton set high standards that delighted many, including Ambassador Joseph Choate and sculptor Daniel Chester French. But her perceptive and sometimes indiscreet pen also alienated potent figures like Emily Vanderbilt Sloane and Georgiana Welles Sargent. Author Cornelia Brooke Gilder gives an insider's glimpse of the community's reaction to this disruptive star during her tumultuous Lenox decade.

The Touchstone

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486854108
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Touchstone written by Edith Wharton and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn.

Old New York (Four-Book Collection)

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Old New York (Four-Book Collection) written by Edith Wharton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-12-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The novellas reveal the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the class system, and the condition of women in society Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, and New Year's Day. The decades indicated in the subtitles to the stories make them prequels, after a fashion, to The Age of Innocence. All five might as well be cut from the same bolt of cloth, sharing settings, characters, social insight, a similar knowing eye for a telling detail. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She became known for her psychological examination of characters faced with changes in the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society. Her novels and short stories provide numerous expert characterizations of complex men and women.

Edith Wharton

Author : Theresa Craig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Theresa Craig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume unites Wharton's personal history with discussion of her design theory, the elaborate settings she created in her fiction, and the design of her own residences, including exteriors, interiors, and gardens. Illustrated with an engaging combination of lavish new color photography and charming historical documents, it offers a unique collection that captures Wharton's timeless style.

Edith Wharton

Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845952014
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Hermione Lee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1862, during the Civil War, Edith Wharton broke away from her wealthy background. She travelled extensively in Europe, eventually settling in Paris. This biography delves into various aspects of Wharton's extraordinary life-story, shifting the emphasis towards Europe and placing her in her social context and her history.

French Essence

Author : Vicki Archer
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 9780670022274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book French Essence written by Vicki Archer and published by Avery. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "My French Life" returns with a breathtaking, full-color tour of the culture and style unique to Provence. Now fully at home in this magnificent corner of the world, she brings a guide for celebrating and re-creating Provenal ambiance.