Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
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Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Edith Wharton
Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 517 exemplars
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 369 exemplars
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 89 exemplars
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 exemplars
Anime attardate - La tragedia della Musa 13 exemplars
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Autor — 9 exemplars
Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) 8 exemplars
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 exemplars
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 exemplars
Ghosts: Edith Wharton's Gothic Tales 5 exemplars
Classic American Literature: 21 books by Edith Wharton in a single file, with active table of contents 5 exemplars
La campanilla de la doncella y otros relatos 4 exemplars
Quartet: Four Stories 4 exemplars
Triangoli imperfetti 3 exemplars
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 exemplars
All Souls [short story] 3 exemplars
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 exemplars
Madame de Treynes 2 exemplars
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 exemplars
Xingn??? 2 exemplars
Ethan Frome Illustrated 2 exemplars
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 exemplars
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 exemplars
Verão 2 exemplars
A Motor-Flight Through France 2 exemplars
The age of innocence 2 exemplars
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 exemplars
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 exemplars
the glimpeses of the moon 1 exemplars
Ethan Frome, avagy egy szerelem csapdája 1 exemplars
Wharton Novels 1 exemplars
Le fils et autres nouvelles 1 exemplars
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 exemplars
“The Portrait” 1 exemplars
Estío (13/20) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplars
Il ritorno a casa 1 exemplars
The fascinating tale of women’s independence 1 exemplars
A Casa da Felicidade 1 exemplars
A motor-flight through France (1908). By: Edith Wharton (Illustrated).: France, Description and travel (2017) 1 exemplars
Relato em Marrocos 1 exemplars
The Glimpses of the Moon Annotated 1 exemplars
OBSTACOLE 1 exemplars
El angel de la tumba 1 exemplars
Sappho, literal translation with memoir 1 exemplars
House of Mirth (Signet Classics Edition) (64) by Wharton, Edith [Mass Market Paperback (2000)] (2000) 1 exemplars
The Writing of Fiction 1 exemplars
Ethan Frome & Summer (04) by Wharton, Edith - Knight, Denise D - Lauter, Paul [Paperback (2003)] 1 exemplars
“Roman Fever” 1 exemplars
In Morocco by Edith Wharton: Annotated 1 exemplars
14 Great Novels 1 exemplars
Świat zabawy 1 exemplars
Old New York. The Old Maid. First Edition 1 exemplars
the mother 1 exemplars
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 exemplars
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 exemplars
Lettere a Morton Fullerton. 1907-1931 1 exemplars
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplars
Ethan frome and stories 1 exemplars
Siostry Bunner 1 exemplars
Pienezza di vita 1 exemplars
Καλοκαίρι 1 exemplars
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 exemplars
The Writing of Fiction 1 exemplars
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 exemplars
glimpse of the moon 1 exemplars
Wharton Short Stories 1 exemplars
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplars
L'incidente 1 exemplars
The Edith Wharton BBC Radio Drama Collection 1 exemplars
Falso Amanhecer 1 exemplars
Walk in dread : twelve classic eerie tales. 1 exemplars
Edith Wharton: 14 Novels & 12 Audiobooks 1 exemplars
A motor-flight through France Volume 2 1 exemplars
Cuentos 1 exemplars
The Works of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The House of Mirth… (2012) 1 exemplars
El diagnóstico 1 exemplars
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 1 exemplars
Certain People-6 stories 0200071-0200121 1 exemplars
Charm Incorporated (in Stories Volume One) 1 exemplars
A book of quotations 1 exemplars
Gli infelicissimi 1 exemplars
Wharton Edith 1 exemplars
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 exemplars
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 exemplars
ETHAN FROME A Perfection Micro-Classic, #MC58 1 exemplars
Η γεροντοκόρη 1 exemplars
The Collected Short Stories, Volume II 1 exemplars
A Bottle of Perrier 1 exemplars
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 exemplars
Viaggio in Francia 1 exemplars
Sussurros de Verão 1 exemplars
WARTON: NOVELLAS and OTHERS WRITINGS 1 exemplars
WHARTON: COLLECTER SOTIES 1891-1910 1 exemplars
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) 1 exemplars
Mother's Recompense 1 exemplars
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 exemplars
Cuentos completos de Edith Wharton 1 exemplars
Edith Wharton's New York City: A Backward Glance 1 exemplars
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 exemplars
Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100 authors & 200 stories) 1 exemplars
Motor-Flight Through France, A 1 exemplars
An Old New York Collection: Four Novels by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the… (2020) 1 exemplars
Sorelle Bunner 1 exemplars
Edith Wharton: The Complete Supernatural Stories 1 exemplars
Der Unfall 1 exemplars
Obres associades
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Col·laborador — 436 exemplars
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Col·laborador — 262 exemplars
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 152 exemplars
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Col·laborador — 146 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Col·laborador — 144 exemplars
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Col·laborador — 131 exemplars
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah OrneJewett, Edith Wharton… (1990) — Col·laborador — 124 exemplars
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Col·laborador — 98 exemplars
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library (1998) — Autor, algunes edicions — 64 exemplars
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1992) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Col·laborador — 57 exemplars
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Col·laborador — 42 exemplars
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — algunes edicions — 25 exemplars
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Femmes de Siècle: Stories from the 90s - Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries (1992) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Representative American Short Stories — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 exemplars
Wives and Lovers — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
A Reader for Writers — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Travel & Adventure: The Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories (2012) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Contos Dramáticos — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel (1997) — Original novel — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Wharton, Edith
- Nom oficial
- Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
- Data de naixement
- 1862-01-24
- Data de defunció
- 1937-08-11
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
- Causa de la mort
- stroke
- Llocs de residència
- 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 - Educació
- at home
- Professions
- novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer - Relacions
- Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband) - Premis i honors
- 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) - Biografia breu
- 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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Folio Archives 267: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 1990 a Folio Society Devotees (abril 2022)
Found: Wharton-esque Americans in Italy a Name that Book (abril 2022)
December 2021: Edith Wharton a Monthly Author Reads (gener 2022)
Group Read, June 2021: The Glimpses of the Moon a 1001 Books to read before you die (juliol 2021)
August: Reading Edith Wharton a Monthly Author Reads (juny 2018)
March Read: Edith Wharton a Virago Modern Classics (maig 2017)
1913: Wharton - The Custom of the Country a Literary Centennials (febrer 2014)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-34 a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (novembre 2011)
***Group Read: The Age of Innocence a The Highly-Rated Book Group (octubre 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 14-24 a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (octubre 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 1-13 a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (octubre 2011)
The AGE OF INNOCENCE Group Read: Main Thread a 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (octubre 2011)
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- Obres
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- També de
- 182
- Membres
- 55,872
- Popularitat
- #265
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
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- ISBN
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- Llengües
- 31
- Preferit
- 364