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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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Yleistieto

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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I had to remind myself while reading the book how old it is. It is brilliantly written and the author has a wonderful intuition of the human psyche. The descriptions are rich, the characters varied and lively. There is a wonderful understated humor to it too.

Now I want to see one of the film versions too.
 
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Matthew Woodson Illustrator
Romà Ribera Cover artist
Alan Munro Narrator
Maureen Howard Introduction
Stephen Shore Photographer
William Lyon Phelps Introduction
Flo Gibson Narrator
E. M. Forster Introduction
Dick Hill Narrator
Mary Sarah Narrator
Raver Lorna Narrator
Pietro Negri Translator
Penelope Lively Introduction
Phoebe Judge Narrator
Brenda Dayne Narrator
Nina Bawden Introduction
A. B. Wenzell Illustrator
Luciana Pirè Translator
Janet Beer Editor
Anna Fields Narrator
Edmond Aman-Jean Cover artist
Eleanor Bron Narrator
Pamela Scott Wilkie Cover artist
Joseph Bartelli Illustrator
John Twachtman Cover artist
Greti Ducci Translator
C M Hébert Narrator
Edith Peel Editor
L. Augelini Translator
E H Van Deusen Contributor
Jüri Kaarma Kujundaja.
Djuke Houweling Translator
Joni Jacobs Cover designer
Charlotte Gerlings Introduction
Anita Shreve Foreword
Richard Thomas Translator
Gela Pez Translator
Joseph Tomanek Cover Art
E. Dal Fabbro Traduttore
Bruce Rogers Designer
Taciser Belge Translator
Scott Brick Narrator
Paul E. Kennedy Cover designer
Helen T. Munn Foreword
Yuan Shi Illustrator
Mary Flanagan Introduction
Michael Heß Illustrator
Judith Fryer Contributor
Kathryn Delaney Cover designer
Marcella Hannau Translator
Emily Hutchinson Abridged edition by
Jim Killavey Narrator
Tiziana Lo Porto Translator
Lucio Angelini Translator
Terje Kuusik Toimetaja.
Elisabetta Rasy Introduction
Carroll D. Wright Contributor
Lionel Trilling Contributor
Alfred Kazin Afterword
Susanna Moore Afterword
Bernard DeVoto Introduction
Pamela Knights Introduction
Robin Peel Editor
Xavier Pàmies Translator
Charles Ziga Designer
William Hope Narrator
Pierre Leyris Traduction
Henry Varnum Poor Illustrator
Doris Grumbach Introduction
James McConnell Illustrator
Claudia Wenner Translator
Lev Raphael Contributor
Karin Suursalu Translator
Clifton Fadiman Introduction
Jennifer Basset Series Editor
Adam Sims Narrator
Jeffrey Brown Illustrator
Ángela Pérez Translator
Scott Marshall Contributor
Bernard De Voto Introduction
Vito Amoruso Introduction
Linda Wagner-Martin Introduction, Editor
A. Stevens Cover artist
Grace Conlin Narrator
Joss Barratt Cover artist
Janet Beer Goodwyn Introduction
Maggie Wadey Screenplay
Roxana Robinson Editor, Introduction
Mary Gordon Introduction
Penelope Farmer Introduction
Edwin Björkman Afterword
Geoffrey Walton Afterword
Gustaf Ankarcrona Cover artist
Elizabeth Strout Introduction
Seth Illustrator
Maxfield Parrish Illustrator
Yolanda Morató Introduction
Pilar Adón Translator
E. C. Peixotto Illustrator
Mari Devon Narrator

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Teokset
379
Also by
182
Jäseniä
55,872
Suosituimmuussija
#265
Arvio (tähdet)
3.9
Kirja-arvosteluja
1,279
ISBN:t
3,498
Kielet
31
Kuinka monen suosikki
364

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