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Author : Louis Auchincloss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Edith Wharton Reader written by Louis Auchincloss and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Guy Wilson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580933289
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
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
Author : Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780547236308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (363 download)
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.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590174364
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New York Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s Introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.
Author : Hermione Lee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845952014
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
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.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684106380
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Edith Wharton Reader written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144748052X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
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.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144062139X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Buccaneers written by Edith Wharton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—soon to be an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Eris
ISBN 13 : 9781912475773
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Vice of Reading written by Edith Wharton and published by Eris. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is foremost." A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of "mechanical" readers is having a disastrous impact on the world of letters. A subtly devastating work of social criticism, The Vice of Reading is also a celebration of the voracious and amoral consumption that marks out the very best readers. Eris Gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and non-fiction.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Edith Wharton Reader written by Edith Wharton and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the Pulitzer Prizewinner's work including fiction, poetry, and memoirs.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York ; London : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Writing of Fiction written by Edith Wharton and published by New York ; London : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1925 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Dwight
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810927957
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Edith Wharton written by Eleanor Dwight and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated biography portrays Edith Wharton the writer, traveler, socialite, gardener, architect, interior designer, art scholar, expatriate, war worker, and connoisseur of life. The more than 300 illustrations include photographs--some by Wharton herself--as well as selected drawings, paintings, garden plans, letters, and postcards, many of which have never before been published. A chronology, selected bibliography, and index round out the volume, which re-creates in vivid detail the life of this multi-faceted, extraordinary woman.
Author : James W. Tuttleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521383196
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Edith Wharton written by James W. Tuttleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Edith Wharton from the 1890s until her death in 1937. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. In addition, lists of other reviews not presented here are provided. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific titles and indicate the development of Wharton's reputation as a novelist, short story writer, travel writer, and autobiographer.
Author : Wharton, Edith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486791211
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Edith Wharton The Dover Reader written by Wharton, Edith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into wealth and aristocracy, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a member as well as an observer of fashionable New York society. Aspirations to authorship consigned her to outsider status among the idle rich; nevertheless, she drew upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful novels and short stories about people from all walks of life. This well-rounded introduction to Wharton's works features the complete text of her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence, as well as her haunting novella, Ethan Frome. Several excerpts from her highly influential guide to interior design, The Decoration of Houses, offer samples of Wharton's nonfiction style. The collection also includes four short stories as well as several poems.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Reef written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099358916
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)
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:
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781482078169
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (781 download)
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.
