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Download or read book The World Over written by Anthony Gardner and published by Capuchin Classics. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Over was Wharton's last collection of stories, and typifies her elegant style and a feminist perspective that was ahead of its time. The collection includes one of her best-loved stories Roman Fever, which features two middle-aged American women who are visiting Rome with their daughters, and whose past conceals rivalry and jealousy. Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, she became one of its most astute critics. In such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence she employed both humour and profound empathy to describe the lives of New York's upper class and the vanishing of their world in the early years of the 20th century.
Download or read book The World Over written by Edith Wharton and published by New York, Appleton. This book was released on 1936 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The House of Mirth by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The House of Mirth written by Edith Wharton and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 19th-century New York, high society places great demands on a woman—she must be beautiful, wealthy, cultured, and above all, virtuous, at least on the surface. At 29, Lily Bart has had every opportunity to marry successfully within her social class, but her irresponsible lifestyle and high standards lead her further and further down the social ladder. Her gambling debts are catching up with her, and an arrangement with a friend's husband causes society to begin questioning her virtue. The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton’s sharp critique of an American upper class she viewed as morally corrupt and relentlessly materialistic. EDITH WHARTON [1862–1937], born in New York, made her debut at the age of forty but managed to write around twenty novels, nearly a hundred short stories, poetry, travelogues, and essays. Wharton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times: 1927, 1928, and 1930. For The Age of Innocence [1920], she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
Book Synopsis The Stories of Edith Wharton by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the turn of the century to the 1930s, these short stories offer look at the glittering but restrictive society of New York and cosmopolitan Europe, as well as portraits of women in search of fulfillment.
Book Synopsis Edith Wharton Abroad by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book Edith Wharton Abroad written by Edith Wharton and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains excerpts from Edith Wharton's seven works of travel literature, written between 1880 and 1920. Scornful of guidebooks, she focuses on the undiscovered byways of Europe, Morocco and the Mediterranean with the sensitivity of an observant and imaginative novelist.
Download or read book Summer written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 300 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.
Book Synopsis Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism by : Emily Josephine Orlando
Download or read book Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism written by Emily Josephine Orlando and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies."--Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton "Readers will emerge with a new respect for Wharton's engagement with the world around her and for her ability to convey her particular vision in her literary works."--Julie Olin-Ammentorp, author of Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, was a transnational author who attempted to understand and appreciate the culture, history, and artifacts of the regions she encountered in her extensive travels abroad. Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism explores the international scope of Wharton's life and writing, focusing on how her work connects with the idea of cosmopolitanism. This volume illustrates the many ways Wharton engaged with global issues of her time. Contributors examine both her canonical and lesser-known works, including her art historical discoveries, political work, travel writing, World War I texts, and first novel. They consider themes of anarchism, race, imperialism, regionalism, and orientalism; Wharton's treatment of contemporary marriage debates; her indebtedness to her literary predecessors; and her genre experimentation. Together, they demonstrate how Wharton's struggle to balance her powerful local and national identifications with cosmopolitan values, resulted in a diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision. Contributors Ferd Asya - William Blazek - Rita Bode - Donna Campbell - Mary Carney - Clare Virginia Eby - June Howard - Meredith L. Goldsmith - Sharon Kim - D. Medina Lasansky - Maureen Montgomery - Emily J. Orlando - Margaret A. Toth - Gary Totten
Book Synopsis The Edith Wharton Omnibus by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Edith Wharton Omnibus written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his brilliant introduction to the present volume, the noted writer Gore Vidal makes this comment: "At best, there are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major' and Edith Wharton is one. ... I can only say that I envy anyone reading for the first time The Age of Innocence or New Year's Day." In these works, as in most of Mrs. Wharton's fiction, her subject is America's upper classes as they flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alive with her inimitable wit and rich with her feeling for drama, her stories carry us from the glitter of New York's high society to the grace and elegance of Newport. The works that make up The Edith Wharton Omnibus are among her very best -- and Edith Wharton's best is very good indeed, ranked by many critics as equal to the novels of her contemporary, Henry James.
Download or read book In Morocco written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.
Book Synopsis The Letters of Edith Wharton by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Letters of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by New York : Collier Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the intimate letters of Edith Wharton--the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize--detailing her work, her family, her friendship with Henry James, and her passion for the American journalist Morton Fullerton. The letters reveal a remarkable, independent woman who lived life fully. Three 8-page inserts.
Book Synopsis Edith Wharton by : Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
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:
Download or read book The Dilettante written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "as usual" was his own qualification of the act; a convenient way of bridging the interval—in days and other sequences—that lay between this visit and the last. It was characteristic of him that he instinctively excluded his call two days earlier, with Ruth Gaynor, from the list of his visits to Mrs. Vervain: the special conditions attending it had made it no more like a visit to Mrs. Vervain than an engraved dinner invitation is like a personal letter.
Download or read book Here and Beyond written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not till the following spring that I plucked up courage to tell Mrs. Bridgeworth what had happened to me that night at Morgat.In the first place, Mrs. Bridgeworth was in America; and after the night in question I lingered on abroad for several months--not for pleasure, God knows, but because of a nervous collapse supposed to be the result of having taken up my work again too soon after my touch of fever in Egypt. But, in any case, if I had been door to door with Grace Bridgeworth I could not have spoken of the affair before, to her or to any one else; not till I had been rest-cured and built up again at one of those wonderful Swiss sanatoria where they clean the cobwebs out of you. I could not even have written to her--not to save my life.
Book Synopsis The Age of Desire by : Jennie Fields
Download or read book The Age of Desire written by Jennie Fields and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship They say that behind every great man is a great woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary and confidante. At the age of forty-five, despite her growing fame, Edith remains unfulfilled in a lonely, sexless marriage. Against all the rules of Gilded Age society, she falls in love with Morton Fullerton, a dashing young journalist. But their scandalous affair threatens everything in Edith’s life—especially her abiding ties to Anna. At a moment of regained popularity for Wharton, Jennie Fields brilliantly interweaves Wharton’s real letters and diary entries with her fascinating, untold love story. Told through the points of view of both Edith and Anna, The Age of Desire transports readers to the golden days of Wharton’s turn-of-the century world and—like the recent bestseller The Chaperone—effortlessly re-creates the life of an unforgettable woman.
Book Synopsis Edith Wharton - Early Fiction by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book Edith Wharton - Early Fiction written by Edith Wharton and published by Word to the Wise. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Literature Edith Wharton is much beloved. Her stories are exquisite whether they be novels or short stories. A wonderful experience to read.
Book Synopsis The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton by : Perseus
Download or read book The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton written by Perseus and published by Carroll & Graf. This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive collection of short stories by the author known for her insight into the lives of women and men trying to reconcile the desires of the heart with the demands of society, in a volume that also includes an introduction by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Hotel du Lac. Reprint.
Book Synopsis The Greater Inclination by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Greater Inclination written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of her-- she affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the most privileged--and from Mrs. Memorall, whom he revered and cultivated as her friend, he had extracted but the one impressionist phrase: "Oh, well, she's like one of those old prints where the lines have the value of color." He was almost certain, at all events, that he had been thinking of Mrs. Anerton as he sat over his breakfast in the empty hotel restaurant, and that, looking up on the approach of the lady who seated herself at the table near the window, he had said to himself, "That might be she."
