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The Marne

di Edith Wharton

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Marne A Tale of the War. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Edith Wharton, which is now, at last, again available to you.Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Marne A Tale of the War in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Marne A Tale of the War: Look inside the book: The misery of feeling himself a big boy, long-limbed, strong-limbed, old enough for evening clothes, champagne, the classics, biology, and views on international politics, and yet able to do nothing but hang about marble hotels and pore over newspapers, while rank on rank, and regiment on regiment, the youth of France and England, swung through the dazed streets and packed the endless trainsthe misery of this was so great to Troy that he became, as the days dragged on, more than ever what his mother called 'callous, ' sullen, humiliated, resentful at being associated with all the rich Americans flying from France....Where he had seen the sociable gossiping life of the narrow streets, young men lounging at the blacksmith's, blue-sleeved carters sitting in the wine-shops while their horses shook off the flies in the hot sunshine of the village square, black-pinafored children coming home from school, the fat cure stopping to talk to little old ladies under the church porch, girls with sleek hair calling to each other from the doorways of the shops, and women in sunburnt gingham bending over the village wash-trough or leaning on their rakes among the hayrickswhere all this had been, now only a few incalculably old people sat in the doorways and looked with bewildered eyes at strange soldiers fulfilling the familiar tasks. About Edith Wharton, the Author: Funston, writing on Edith Wharton in American National Biography, 'What is most notable about A Backward Glance, however, is what it does not tell: her criticism of Lucretia Jones her mother, her difficulties with Teddy, and her affair with Morton Fullerton, which did not come to light until her papers, deposited in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, were opened in 1968.'...The Touchstone (1900) The Valley of Decision (1902) Sanctuary (1903) The House of Mirth (1905) Madame de Treymes (1907) The Fruit of the Tree (1907) Ethan Frome (1911) The Reef (1912) The Custom of the Country (1913) Summer (1917) The Marne (1918) The Age of Innocence (1920) The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) A Son at the Front (1923) Old New York (1924) The Mother's Recompense (1925) Twilight Sleep (1927) The Children (1928) Hudson River Bracketed (1929) The Gods Arrive (1932) The Buccaneers (1938) Fast and Loose (1938)… (altro)
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3. The Marne by Edith Wharton
published: 1918
format: 49-page Kindle ebook
acquired: January 11 read: Jan 11-15 time reading: 2:18, 2.8 mpp
rating: 2
genre/style: Classic? theme: Wharton
locations: France
about the author: 1862-1937. Born Edith Newbold Jones on West 23rd Street, New York City. Relocated permanently to France after 1911.

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This is a tough one to review. It‘s depressing to read something poor from a writer you love.

It seems Wharton rushed this out during WWI, where she fully supported France. The result is a simplistic story of an American boy who grew partially in France, becoming a Francophile, and who volunteers. Germans are vilified en masse, while French are praised and Americans are gently disparaged for the limited US commitment. The book is essentially propaganda. Hopefully [Age of Innocence] will win me over again.

The photo (see link below) of Wharton with US soldiers is from 1918. The two soldiers on the right are sons of Teddy Roosevelt.

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That's probably enough on this. Not recommended.

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  dchaikin | Jan 22, 2023 |
A quick little read by one of my very favorite authors.....the story of a wealthy young American man fortunate enough to summer in France as a child who develops a love for the country, one strong enough to make him yearn to help in the war effort of WWI to save France from the German onslaught, although his age prohibits him from being a soldier. As quite often is the case with Wharton, there is much subtle criticism of the vapid hypocrisy of American wealthy socialites as they also express their somewhat shallow desires to be helpful, but for all the wrong reasons. This certainly shares Wharton's growing disdain that led her to spend her final years as an expatriate living in France. I also learned a little bit about America's initial involvement in WWI. I love Wharton, and i am slowly running out of her works that i have not read yet....i will be slowly spreading those remaining out over time! ( )
  jeffome | Jan 27, 2011 |
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Marne A Tale of the War. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Edith Wharton, which is now, at last, again available to you.Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Marne A Tale of the War in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW.Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Marne A Tale of the War: Look inside the book: The misery of feeling himself a big boy, long-limbed, strong-limbed, old enough for evening clothes, champagne, the classics, biology, and views on international politics, and yet able to do nothing but hang about marble hotels and pore over newspapers, while rank on rank, and regiment on regiment, the youth of France and England, swung through the dazed streets and packed the endless trainsthe misery of this was so great to Troy that he became, as the days dragged on, more than ever what his mother called 'callous, ' sullen, humiliated, resentful at being associated with all the rich Americans flying from France....Where he had seen the sociable gossiping life of the narrow streets, young men lounging at the blacksmith's, blue-sleeved carters sitting in the wine-shops while their horses shook off the flies in the hot sunshine of the village square, black-pinafored children coming home from school, the fat cure stopping to talk to little old ladies under the church porch, girls with sleek hair calling to each other from the doorways of the shops, and women in sunburnt gingham bending over the village wash-trough or leaning on their rakes among the hayrickswhere all this had been, now only a few incalculably old people sat in the doorways and looked with bewildered eyes at strange soldiers fulfilling the familiar tasks. About Edith Wharton, the Author: Funston, writing on Edith Wharton in American National Biography, 'What is most notable about A Backward Glance, however, is what it does not tell: her criticism of Lucretia Jones her mother, her difficulties with Teddy, and her affair with Morton Fullerton, which did not come to light until her papers, deposited in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, were opened in 1968.'...The Touchstone (1900) The Valley of Decision (1902) Sanctuary (1903) The House of Mirth (1905) Madame de Treymes (1907) The Fruit of the Tree (1907) Ethan Frome (1911) The Reef (1912) The Custom of the Country (1913) Summer (1917) The Marne (1918) The Age of Innocence (1920) The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) A Son at the Front (1923) Old New York (1924) The Mother's Recompense (1925) Twilight Sleep (1927) The Children (1928) Hudson River Bracketed (1929) The Gods Arrive (1932) The Buccaneers (1938) Fast and Loose (1938)

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