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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 517 exemplaren
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 369 exemplaren
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 89 exemplaren
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 exemplaren
Anime attardate - La tragedia della Musa 13 exemplaren
Three Novels of New York (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of… 12 exemplaren
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Auteur — 9 exemplaren
Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) 8 exemplaren
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 exemplaren
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 exemplaren
Ghosts: Edith Wharton's Gothic Tales 5 exemplaren
The Complete Works of Edith Wharton. Illustrated: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and others 5 exemplaren
Classic American Literature: 21 books by Edith Wharton in a single file, with active table of contents 5 exemplaren
La campanilla de la doncella y otros relatos 4 exemplaren
Quartet: Four Stories 4 exemplaren
Triangoli imperfetti 3 exemplaren
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 exemplaren
All Souls [short story] 3 exemplaren
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 exemplaren
Madame de Treynes 2 exemplaren
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 exemplaren
Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners 2 exemplaren
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Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classic) 2nd (second) Edition by Wharton, Edith published by Bantam… 2 exemplaren
Ethan Frome Illustrated 2 exemplaren
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 exemplaren
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 exemplaren
Verão 2 exemplaren
A Motor-Flight Through France 2 exemplaren
The age of innocence 2 exemplaren
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 exemplaren
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 exemplaren
the glimpeses of the moon 1 exemplaar
Ethan Frome, avagy egy szerelem csapdája 1 exemplaar
Wharton Novels 1 exemplaar
Le fils et autres nouvelles 1 exemplaar
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 exemplaar
“The Portrait” 1 exemplaar
Estío (13/20) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaar
Il ritorno a casa 1 exemplaar
The fascinating tale of women’s independence 1 exemplaar
A Casa da Felicidade 1 exemplaar
A motor-flight through France (1908). By: Edith Wharton (Illustrated).: France, Description and travel (2017) 1 exemplaar
Relato em Marrocos 1 exemplaar
The Glimpses of the Moon Annotated 1 exemplaar
OBSTACOLE 1 exemplaar
El angel de la tumba 1 exemplaar
Sappho, literal translation with memoir 1 exemplaar
House of Mirth (Signet Classics Edition) (64) by Wharton, Edith [Mass Market Paperback (2000)] (2000) 1 exemplaar
The Writing of Fiction 1 exemplaar
Ethan Frome & Summer (04) by Wharton, Edith - Knight, Denise D - Lauter, Paul [Paperback (2003)] 1 exemplaar
“Roman Fever” 1 exemplaar
In Morocco by Edith Wharton: Annotated 1 exemplaar
14 Great Novels 1 exemplaar
Świat zabawy 1 exemplaar
Old New York. The Old Maid. First Edition 1 exemplaar
the mother 1 exemplaar
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 exemplaar
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 exemplaar
Lettere a Morton Fullerton. 1907-1931 1 exemplaar
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplaar
Ethan frome and stories 1 exemplaar
Siostry Bunner 1 exemplaar
Pienezza di vita 1 exemplaar
Καλοκαίρι 1 exemplaar
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 exemplaar
The Writing of Fiction 1 exemplaar
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 exemplaar
glimpse of the moon 1 exemplaar
Wharton Short Stories 1 exemplaar
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplaar
L'incidente 1 exemplaar
The Edith Wharton BBC Radio Drama Collection 1 exemplaar
Falso Amanhecer 1 exemplaar
Walk in dread : twelve classic eerie tales. 1 exemplaar
Edith Wharton: 14 Novels & 12 Audiobooks 1 exemplaar
A motor-flight through France Volume 2 1 exemplaar
Cuentos 1 exemplaar
The Works of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The House of Mirth… (2012) 1 exemplaar
El diagnóstico 1 exemplaar
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 1 exemplaar
Certain People-6 stories 0200071-0200121 1 exemplaar
Charm Incorporated (in Stories Volume One) 1 exemplaar
A book of quotations 1 exemplaar
Gli infelicissimi 1 exemplaar
Wharton Edith 1 exemplaar
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 exemplaar
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 exemplaar
ETHAN FROME A Perfection Micro-Classic, #MC58 1 exemplaar
Η γεροντοκόρη 1 exemplaar
The Collected Short Stories, Volume II 1 exemplaar
A Bottle of Perrier 1 exemplaar
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 exemplaar
Viaggio in Francia 1 exemplaar
Sussurros de Verão 1 exemplaar
WARTON: NOVELLAS and OTHERS WRITINGS 1 exemplaar
WHARTON: COLLECTER SOTIES 1891-1910 1 exemplaar
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) 1 exemplaar
Mother's Recompense 1 exemplaar
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 exemplaar
Cuentos completos de Edith Wharton 1 exemplaar
Edith Wharton's New York City: A Backward Glance 1 exemplaar
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 exemplaar
Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100 authors & 200 stories) 1 exemplaar
Motor-Flight Through France, A 1 exemplaar
An Old New York Collection: Four Novels by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the… (2020) 1 exemplaar
Sorelle Bunner 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Wharton, Edith
- Officiële naam
- Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
- Geboortedatum
- 1862-01-24
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1937-08-11
- Graflocatie
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New York, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- stroke
- Woonplaatsen
- 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 - Opleiding
- at home
- Beroepen
- novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer - Relaties
- Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- 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) - Korte biografie
- 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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Wharton schets met veel gevoel voor detail een beeld van de high society in New York. Mensen doen zoals het hoort en vergeten om echt te leven. Ik heb het boek met veel plezier gelezen. Ik vond het leuker dan "The portrait of a lady" van Henry James waarmee het vaak vergeleken wordt. Het boek is ook verfilmd door Martin Scorcese maar die film heb ik nog niet gezien.
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