Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
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Edith Wharton was a woman of extreme contrasts; brought up to be a leisured aristocrat, she was also dedicated to her career as a writer. She wrote novels of manners about the old New York society from which she came, but her attitude was consistently critical. Her irony and her satiric touches, as näytä lisää well as her insight into human character, continue to appeal to readers today. As a child, Wharton found refuge from the demands of her mother's social world in her father's library and in making up stories. Her marriage at age 23 to Edward ("Teddy") Wharton seemed to confirm her place in the conventional role of wealthy society woman, but she became increasingly dissatisfied with the "mundanities" of her marriage and turned to writing, which drew her into an intellectual community and strengthened her sense of self. After publishing two collections of short stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), she wrote her first novel, The Valley of Decision (1902), a long, historical romance set in eighteenth-century Italy. Her next work, the immensely popular The House of Mirth (1905), was a scathing criticism of her own "frivolous" New York society and its capacity to destroy her heroine, the beautiful Lily Bart. As Wharton became more established as a successful writer, Teddy's mental health declined and their marriage deteriorated. In 1907 she left America altogether and settled in Paris, where she wrote some of her most memorable stories of harsh New England rural life---Ethan Frome (1911) and Summer (1917)---as well as The Reef (1912), which is set in France. All describe characters forced to make moral choices in which the rights of individuals are pitted against their responsibilities to others. She also completed her most biting satire, The Custom of the Country (1913), the story of Undine Spragg's climb, marriage by marriage, from a midwestern town to New York to a French chateau. During World War I, Wharton dedicated herself to the war effort and was honored by the French government for her work with Belgian refugees. After the war, the world Wharton had known was gone. Even her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence (1920), a story set in old New York, could not recapture the former time. Although the new age welcomed her---Wharton was both a critical and popular success, honored by Yale University and elected to The National Institute of Arts and Letters---her later novels show her struggling to come to terms with a new era. In The Writing of Fiction (1925), Wharton acknowledged her debt to her friend Henry James, whose writings share with hers the descriptions of fine distinctions within a social class and the individual's burdens of making proper moral decisions. R.W.B. Lewis's biography of Wharton, published in 1975, along with a wealth of new biographical material, inspired an extensive reevaluation of Wharton. Feminist readings and reactions to them have focused renewed attention on her as a woman and as an artist. Although many of her books have recently been reprinted, there is still no complete collected edition of her work. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 517 kappaletta
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 369 kappaletta
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 89 kappaletta
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 kappaletta
Anime attardate - La tragedia della Musa 13 kappaletta
Three Novels of New York (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of… 12 kappaletta
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Tekijä — 9 kappaletta
Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) 8 kappaletta
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 kappaletta
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 kappaletta
Ghosts: Edith Wharton's Gothic Tales 5 kappaletta
The Complete Works of Edith Wharton. Illustrated: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and others 5 kappaletta
Classic American Literature: 21 books by Edith Wharton in a single file, with active table of contents 5 kappaletta
La campanilla de la doncella y otros relatos 4 kappaletta
Quartet: Four Stories 4 kappaletta
Triangoli imperfetti 3 kappaletta
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 kappaletta
All Souls [short story] 3 kappaletta
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 kappaletta
Madame de Treynes 2 kappaletta
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 kappaletta
Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners 2 kappaletta
Xingn??? 2 kappaletta
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classic) 2nd (second) Edition by Wharton, Edith published by Bantam… 2 kappaletta
Ethan Frome Illustrated 2 kappaletta
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 kappaletta
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 kappaletta
Verão 2 kappaletta
A Motor-Flight Through France 2 kappaletta
The age of innocence 2 kappaletta
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 kappaletta
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 kappaletta
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Wharton Novels 1 kappale
Le fils et autres nouvelles 1 kappale
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 kappale
“The Portrait” 1 kappale
Estío (13/20) (Spanish Edition) 1 kappale
Il ritorno a casa 1 kappale
A Casa da Felicidade 1 kappale
A motor-flight through France (1908). By: Edith Wharton (Illustrated).: France, Description and travel (2017) 1 kappale
Relato em Marrocos 1 kappale
The Glimpses of the Moon Annotated 1 kappale
OBSTACOLE 1 kappale
El angel de la tumba 1 kappale
Sappho, literal translation with memoir 1 kappale
House of Mirth (Signet Classics Edition) (64) by Wharton, Edith [Mass Market Paperback (2000)] (2000) 1 kappale
The Writing of Fiction 1 kappale
Ethan Frome & Summer (04) by Wharton, Edith - Knight, Denise D - Lauter, Paul [Paperback (2003)] 1 kappale
“Roman Fever” 1 kappale
In Morocco by Edith Wharton: Annotated 1 kappale
14 Great Novels 1 kappale
Świat zabawy 1 kappale
the mother 1 kappale
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 kappale
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 kappale
Lettere a Morton Fullerton. 1907-1931 1 kappale
Wiek niewinnosci 1 kappale
Ethan frome and stories 1 kappale
Siostry Bunner 1 kappale
Pienezza di vita 1 kappale
Καλοκαίρι 1 kappale
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 kappale
The Writing of Fiction 1 kappale
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 kappale
glimpse of the moon 1 kappale
Wharton Short Stories 1 kappale
Wiek niewinnosci 1 kappale
L'incidente 1 kappale
Falso Amanhecer 1 kappale
Edith Wharton: 14 Novels & 12 Audiobooks 1 kappale
A motor-flight through France Volume 2 1 kappale
Cuentos 1 kappale
The Works of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The House of Mirth… (2012) 1 kappale
El diagnóstico 1 kappale
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 1 kappale
Certain People-6 stories 0200071-0200121 1 kappale
A book of quotations 1 kappale
Gli infelicissimi 1 kappale
Wharton Edith 1 kappale
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 kappale
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 kappale
Η γεροντοκόρη 1 kappale
The Collected Short Stories, Volume II 1 kappale
A Bottle of Perrier 1 kappale
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 kappale
Viaggio in Francia 1 kappale
Sussurros de Verão 1 kappale
WARTON: NOVELLAS and OTHERS WRITINGS 1 kappale
WHARTON: COLLECTER SOTIES 1891-1910 1 kappale
Mother's Recompense 1 kappale
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 kappale
Cuentos completos de Edith Wharton 1 kappale
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 kappale
Motor-Flight Through France, A 1 kappale
An Old New York Collection: Four Novels by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the… (2020) 1 kappale
Sorelle Bunner 1 kappale
Der Unfall 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Wharton, Edith
- Virallinen nimi
- Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
- Syntymäaika
- 1862-01-24
- Kuolinaika
- 1937-08-11
- Hautapaikka
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Yhdysvallat
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
- Kuolinsyy
- stroke
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France - Koulutus
- at home
- Ammatit
- novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer - Suhteet
- Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (1916)
nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1927, 1928, 1930)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature | 1926)
Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1921)
National Women's Hall of Fame (1996) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York family. She spent her early childhood in Europe, where she developed a gift for languages and a deep appreciation for art, architecture and literature.
She was educated by governesses and by her own reading, and began writing at any early age. Verses, her first volume of poems, was published privately when she was 16. In 1885, she married Edward "Teddy" Wharton, 12 years her senior. In 1897, with Ogden Codman, Jr., an architect friend, she published her first major book, The Decoration of Houses (1897). A few years later, she bought 113-acres in Lenox, Massachusetts, then designed and built The Mount, a country home to meet her needs as a designer, gardener, hostess, and writer. During the next 10 years at The Mount, she wrote some of her greatest works, including The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911). After a divorce from Teddy Wharton in 1913, she moved permanently to France. During World War I, she did social reform and humanitarian work, including establishing schools for refugee children, for which she received the Legion of Honor.
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