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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 visa mer 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) visa färre

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Verk av Edith Wharton

Oskuldens tid (1920) 13,550 exemplar
Glädjens hus (1905) 9,500 exemplar
Ethan Frome (1911) — Författare — 9,328 exemplar
The Custom of the Country (1913) 2,321 exemplar
Summer (1917) 2,077 exemplar
The Buccaneers (1937) 1,301 exemplar
En skymt av månen (1922) 983 exemplar
Blindskär : [roman] (1912) 799 exemplar
Old New York (1924) 664 exemplar
Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964) 564 exemplar
The Children (1928) 481 exemplar
Lyckligt ogift (1927) 376 exemplar
Madame de Treymes (1907) 374 exemplar
The Mother's Recompense (1925) 340 exemplar
The Decoration of Houses (1897) 312 exemplar
The Touchstone (1900) 307 exemplar
Ethan Frome / Summer (1982) 290 exemplar
Bunner Sisters (1916) 282 exemplar
Collected Stories 1911-1937 (2001) 258 exemplar
Collected Stories 1891-1910 (2001) 245 exemplar
In Morocco (1919) 235 exemplar
Short Stories (1994) 220 exemplar
Hudson River Bracketed (1929) 215 exemplar
The Fruit of the Tree (1907) 174 exemplar
The Writing of Fiction (1925) 174 exemplar
The Reckoning (1600) 152 exemplar
The Old Maid (1924) 151 exemplar
Sanctuary (1903) 145 exemplar
A son at the front (1923) 143 exemplar
Souls Belated (1899) 118 exemplar
The Gods Arrive (1932) 116 exemplar
The Letters of Edith Wharton (1910) 112 exemplar
Xingu (1916) 107 exemplar
Ghosts (1937) 91 exemplar
Afterward [short fiction] (1910) 90 exemplar
A motor-flight through France (1908) 86 exemplar
Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) 80 exemplar
French Ways and Their Meaning (1919) 77 exemplar
Italian Backgrounds (1905) 71 exemplar
The Edith Wharton omnibus (1978) 70 exemplar
The Valley of Decision (1902) 70 exemplar
The Stories of Edith Wharton (1982) 68 exemplar
Edith Wharton: Selected Poems (2005) 59 exemplar
The Cruise of the Vanadis (2004) 47 exemplar
The Greater Inclination (1899) 40 exemplar
The Letters [short story] (1995) 38 exemplar
The Marne (1918) 35 exemplar
The Vice of Reading (1900) 34 exemplar
New Year's Day (1924) 33 exemplar
The Hermit and the Wild Woman (1908) 33 exemplar
Edith Wharton Reader (1965) 31 exemplar
The Eyes (1994) 28 exemplar
Crucial Instances (1901) 27 exemplar
The Works of Edith Wharton (1987) 23 exemplar
The World Over (1936) 21 exemplar
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
Cuentos inquietantes (2015) 19 exemplar
The Other Two (1994) 18 exemplar
Here and Beyond (1926) 18 exemplar
Xingu and Other Stories (1916) 17 exemplar
The Book of the Homeless (1916) 16 exemplar
Kerfol (1916) 16 exemplar
Roman Fever [short story] (2014) 15 exemplar
Certain People (1930) 13 exemplar
Coming Home (2011) 12 exemplar
Human Nature (1933) 12 exemplar
The Choice (2010) 11 exemplar
The Long Run (2004) 10 exemplar
Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels (2014) 10 exemplar
Pomegranate Seed (1993) 10 exemplar
The Old Maid [1939 film] (1939) — Författare — 9 exemplar
Her Son (1995) 8 exemplar
An Edith Wharton treasury (1950) 8 exemplar
The House Of The Dead Hand (2004) 7 exemplar
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 3 (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Une affaire de charme (2002) 7 exemplar
The Lady's Maid's Bell (2004) 7 exemplar
The Edith Wharton Collection (2013) 6 exemplar
Bewitched [Short Story] (2017) 6 exemplar
Mr. Jones (2008) 6 exemplar
The Bolted Door (2004) 6 exemplar
Les Metteurs en scène (2001) 5 exemplar
Autres Temps (2011) 5 exemplar
The Pelican {short story} (1996) 5 exemplar
Three Great American Novels (1953) 5 exemplar
BACK TO COMPOSTELA (2011) 4 exemplar
The Fullness of Life (2013) 4 exemplar
The Mission of Jane (2004) 4 exemplar
Escribir ficción (2012) 4 exemplar
Crucial Instances; Sanctuary (2007) 4 exemplar
A Journey (2014) 3 exemplar
Seltsame Ehegeschichten (1992) 3 exemplar
Contos (Portuguese Edition) (2007) 3 exemplar
A Coward (2015) 3 exemplar
Meistererzählungen. (1994) 3 exemplar
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After Holbein (2015) 3 exemplar
Vârsta inocenţei (2011) 3 exemplar
Estate (1993) 3 exemplar
Mrs. Manstey's View (2013) 3 exemplar
Criticar ficción (2012) 3 exemplar
Four Classic Horror Stories (2020) 2 exemplar
Estiu (2023) 2 exemplar
La sombra de la duda (2019) 2 exemplar
TREASURY (1950) 2 exemplar
Madame de Treynes 2 exemplar
Preuve d'amour (2005) 2 exemplar
Xingn??? 2 exemplar
El vici de la lectura (2020) 2 exemplar
The Poetry Of Edith Wharton (2013) 2 exemplar
Unheimliche Geschichten (1991) 2 exemplar
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 exemplar
Gruselkabinett: Verhext (2010) 2 exemplar
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Verão 2 exemplar
The Last Asset [short story] (2013) 2 exemplar
The Moving Finger (1996) 2 exemplar
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“The Portrait” 1 exemplar
The House of Mirth (1998) 1 exemplar
Iki Kiz Kardes (2013) 1 exemplar
Fantasmi (2022) 1 exemplar
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Falso Amanhecer 1 exemplar
Il giorno dei morti (2011) 1 exemplar
Il ritorno a casa 1 exemplar
Relato em Marrocos 1 exemplar
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 exemplar
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplar
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Uskyldens år (1993) 1 exemplar
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Siostry Bunner 1 exemplar
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Age of innocence, The (1920) 1 exemplar
“Roman Fever” 1 exemplar
L'incidente 1 exemplar
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OBSTACOLE 1 exemplar
Una dona soltera (2023) 1 exemplar
Twelve poems (1926) 1 exemplar
APRIL SHOWERS (1900) 1 exemplar
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A TUSCAN SHRINE (1895) 1 exemplar
The Works of Edith Wharton (2009) 1 exemplar
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The Angel at the Grave (2014) 1 exemplar
El diagnóstico 1 exemplar
The refugees (1995) 1 exemplar
The Scribner Treasury (1953) 1 exemplar
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Wharton Edith 1 exemplar
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El día del entierro (2013) 1 exemplar
The Verdict (2013) 1 exemplar
Storie di New York (2016) 1 exemplar
The Wharton Gothics (2020) 1 exemplar
Voyages au front (2018) 1 exemplar
Der Unfall 1 exemplar
Viaggio in Francia 1 exemplar
Le fils et autres nouvelles (1991) 1 exemplar
Falsa partenza (2019) 1 exemplar
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 exemplar
Sorelle Bunner 1 exemplar
Pelikan (2016) 1 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Wharton, Edith
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
Födelsedag
1862-01-24
Avled
1937-08-11
Begravningsplats
Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
New York, New York, USA
Dödsort
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
Dödsorsak
stroke
Bostadsorter
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
Utbildning
at home
Yrken
novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer
Relationer
Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband)
Priser och utmärkelser
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)
Kort biografi
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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The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-34 i 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (november 2011)
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Recensioner

Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes´ house - and into Ethan´s lonely life. But poverty is a prison from which few people escape . . .… (mer)
 
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AlbertLeonhardGieg | 7 andra recensioner | Nov 29, 2023 |
I was completely surprised by this novel. I expected drudgery like so many other classics I've read lately. This was amazing.

It started out cheery enough, yet I knew it was a tragedy, so I purposely did not attach myself to any characters. As things started unraveling for Lily, I got drawn in to the upcoming spiral of her life. I was even reading along with a friend who finished before me and she said she was very sad by the ending. I laughed at her for being so easily swept up into liking characters we knew would have some tragedy.

As I read the final chapters, I was so impressed with how Edith Wharton could spin a tale, describe thoughts and feelings, and lead us into eventual despair right along with Lily. Her writing made me either nod my head in feeling like she's described some of my own feelings, or pondering how well she's described things I've never felt. And by the end, I felt such sadness, it was a literal pain in my chest. Damn her. I was invested without even realizing it.

So amazing in character development, in getting the reader to understand the plight of Lily, the tough decisions she had to make and just didn't, the way the spins of others had such an effect on her own control of her circumstances, and the tragic end.

Just a very good read. May be in my top 3.
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MahanaU | 196 andra recensioner | Nov 21, 2023 |
This book is often compared to its more famous cousin, Ethan Frome because of the recurring themes of isolation, rural villages, loss of individuality, and unfulfilled romance. Even though I tried to consider this book on its own merits, I couldn't help but also compare it to Ethan Frome, and I have to say, I think I know why the latter is more famous.

Both stories have stayed with me after I finished reading them, but EF was so much more haunting and tragic. Summer was an emotional roller coaster, and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel at its conclusion. The ending is both sweet and defeatist, and I think that's the point. The message of the story is put very succinctly by Charity's guardian Mr. Royall in that life only defeats you if you let it. So, while this book didn't end on a bang, it makes me think, and that's why I like it.

If you want an unconventional romance and great growth in characters, and you don't mind thinking, I highly recommend this read!
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readerbug2 | 69 andra recensioner | Nov 16, 2023 |
I first read Ethan Frome in high school, and I'll never forget the ending. It's so poignant and destructive and so complete. It's just as haunting the second time around.

Of course, what makes the ending so memorable is the cast of characters. You can feel their dependence on each other and growing entrapment. Zeena, Ethan, and Mattie all need each other but also destroy each other. Reading about them gives me chills, but I love it! Normally, I prefer to read happy books like Jane Austen, but this book sticks around and really warns readers about fearing loneliness and making rash decisions based on that. I think everyone can relate to this book in some way or another.

If you want a haunting tale with unique characters or the tragic equivalent to an Austen book, I highly recommend Edith Wharton.
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readerbug2 | 208 andra recensioner | Nov 16, 2023 |

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