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 mostra altro 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 meno
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Opere di Edith Wharton
Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 517 copie
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 369 copie
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 89 copie
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 copie
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Autore — 9 copie
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 copie
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 copie
Quartet: Four Stories 4 copie
Triangoli imperfetti 3 copie
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 copie
All Souls [short story] 3 copie
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 copie
Madame de Treynes 2 copie
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 copie
Xingn??? 2 copie
Ethan Frome Illustrated 2 copie
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 copie
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 copie
Verão 2 copie
A Motor-Flight Through France 2 copie
The age of innocence 2 copie
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 copie
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 copie
the glimpeses of the moon 1 copia
Wharton Novels 1 copia
Le fils et autres nouvelles 1 copia
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 copia
“The Portrait” 1 copia
Estío (13/20) (Spanish Edition) 1 copia
Il ritorno a casa 1 copia
A Casa da Felicidade 1 copia
A motor-flight through France (1908). By: Edith Wharton (Illustrated).: France, Description and travel (2017) 1 copia
Relato em Marrocos 1 copia
OBSTACOLE 1 copia
El angel de la tumba 1 copia
House of Mirth (Signet Classics Edition) (64) by Wharton, Edith [Mass Market Paperback (2000)] (2000) 1 copia
The Writing of Fiction 1 copia
Ethan Frome & Summer (04) by Wharton, Edith - Knight, Denise D - Lauter, Paul [Paperback (2003)] 1 copia
“Roman Fever” 1 copia
14 Great Novels 1 copia
Świat zabawy 1 copia
the mother 1 copia
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 copia
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 copia
Wiek niewinnosci 1 copia
Ethan frome and stories 1 copia
Siostry Bunner 1 copia
Pienezza di vita 1 copia
Καλοκαίρι 1 copia
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 copia
The Writing of Fiction 1 copia
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 copia
glimpse of the moon 1 copia
Wharton Short Stories 1 copia
Wiek niewinnosci 1 copia
L'incidente 1 copia
Falso Amanhecer 1 copia
Cuentos 1 copia
The Works of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The House of Mirth… (2012) 1 copia
El diagnóstico 1 copia
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 1 copia
A book of quotations 1 copia
Gli infelicissimi 1 copia
Wharton Edith 1 copia
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 copia
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 copia
Η γεροντοκόρη 1 copia
A Bottle of Perrier 1 copia
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 copia
Viaggio in Francia 1 copia
Sussurros de Verão 1 copia
Mother's Recompense 1 copia
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 copia
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 copia
Motor-Flight Through France, A 1 copia
An Old New York Collection: Four Novels by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the… (2020) 1 copia
Sorelle Bunner 1 copia
Der Unfall 1 copia
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Collaboratore — 436 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 262 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 146 copie
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Collaboratore — 144 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah OrneJewett, Edith Wharton… (1990) — Collaboratore — 124 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 81 copie
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library (1998) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 64 copie
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1992) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Collaboratore — 57 copie
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Collaboratore — 52 copie
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — alcune edizioni — 25 copie
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Femmes de Siècle: Stories from the 90s - Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries (1992) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Representative American Short Stories — Collaboratore — 5 copie
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 copie
Wives and Lovers — Collaboratore — 3 copie
A Reader for Writers — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Contos Dramáticos — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wharton, Edith
- Nome legale
- Edith Newbold Jones
- Data di nascita
- 1862-01-24
- Data di morte
- 1937-08-11
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
- Causa della morte
- stroke
- Luogo di residenza
- 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 - Istruzione
- at home
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer - Relazioni
- Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- 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) - Breve biografia
- 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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Aggiungo anche che durante la lettura mi è tornato spesso in mente Henry James, ma E. Wharton non ha nè la caratura nè la felicità espressiva di H. James. Il contesto sociale è comunque delineato in maniera impeccabile.
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