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Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

Autor(a) de The Age of Innocence

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence (1920) 13,558 exemplares
The House of Mirth (1905) 9,507 exemplares
Ethan Frome (1911) — Autor — 9,328 exemplares
The Custom of the Country (1913) 2,312 exemplares
Summer (1917) 2,081 exemplares
The Buccaneers (1937) 1,302 exemplares
The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) 983 exemplares
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (1973) 885 exemplares
The Reef (1912) 801 exemplares
Old New York (1924) 664 exemplares
Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964) 564 exemplares
The Children (1928) 482 exemplares
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories (2004) 480 exemplares
Twilight Sleep (1927) 377 exemplares
Madame de Treymes (1907) 374 exemplares
The Mother's Recompense (1925) 341 exemplares
The Decoration of Houses (1897) 312 exemplares
The Touchstone (1900) 307 exemplares
Ethan Frome / Summer (1982) 290 exemplares
Bunner Sisters (1916) 282 exemplares
Collected Stories 1911-1937 (2001) 259 exemplares
Collected Stories 1891-1910 (2001) 245 exemplares
In Morocco (1919) 235 exemplares
Short Stories (1994) 220 exemplares
Hudson River Bracketed (1929) 215 exemplares
Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904) 178 exemplares
The Writing of Fiction (1925) 175 exemplares
The Fruit of the Tree (1907) 174 exemplares
The Reckoning (1600) 152 exemplares
The Old Maid (1924) 151 exemplares
Sanctuary (1903) 144 exemplares
A son at the front (1923) 143 exemplares
Souls Belated (1899) 118 exemplares
The Gods Arrive (1932) 116 exemplares
The Letters of Edith Wharton (1910) 112 exemplares
Xingu (1916) 108 exemplares
Ghosts (1937) 92 exemplares
Afterward [short fiction] (1910) 91 exemplares
A motor-flight through France (1908) 86 exemplares
Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) 80 exemplares
French Ways and Their Meaning (1919) 77 exemplares
Italian Backgrounds (1905) 72 exemplares
The Edith Wharton omnibus (1978) 70 exemplares
The Valley of Decision (1902) 70 exemplares
The Stories of Edith Wharton (1982) 68 exemplares
The Uncollected Critical Writings (1996) 62 exemplares
Edith Wharton: Selected Poems (2005) 59 exemplares
The Cruise of the Vanadis (2004) 47 exemplares
Fast and Loose and The Buccaneers (1977) 46 exemplares
The Greater Inclination (1899) 40 exemplares
The Letters [short story] (1995) 38 exemplares
The Marne (1918) 35 exemplares
The Vice of Reading (1900) 34 exemplares
New Year's Day (1924) 33 exemplares
The Hermit and the Wild Woman (1908) 33 exemplares
Edith Wharton Reader (1965) 31 exemplares
The Eyes (1994) 28 exemplares
Crucial Instances (1901) 27 exemplares
The Works of Edith Wharton (1987) 23 exemplares
The World Over (1936) 21 exemplares
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Cuentos inquietantes (2015) 19 exemplares
Os Outros Dois (1994) 18 exemplares
Here and Beyond (1926) 18 exemplares
Xingu and Other Stories (1916) 17 exemplares
The Book of the Homeless (1916) 16 exemplares
Kerfol (1916) 16 exemplares
Works of Edith Wharton (31 Books) (2009) 15 exemplares
Roman Fever [short story] (2014) 15 exemplares
Selected Poems of Edith Wharton (2019) 14 exemplares
Certain People (1930) 13 exemplares
Coming Home (2011) 12 exemplares
Human Nature (1933) 12 exemplares
The Choice (2010) 11 exemplares
The Long Run (2004) 10 exemplares
Edith Wharton: 14 Great Novels (2014) 10 exemplares
Pomegranate Seed (1993) 10 exemplares
The Old Maid [1939 film] (1939) — Autor — 9 exemplares
Her Son (1995) 8 exemplares
An Edith Wharton treasury (1950) 8 exemplares
The House Of The Dead Hand (2004) 7 exemplares
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 3 (2007) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Une affaire de charme (2002) 7 exemplares
The Lady's Maid's Bell (2004) 7 exemplares
The Edith Wharton Collection (2013) 6 exemplares
Bewitched [Short Story] (2017) 6 exemplares
Mr. Jones (2008) 6 exemplares
The Bolted Door (2004) 6 exemplares
Les Metteurs en scène (2001) 5 exemplares
Autres Temps (2011) 5 exemplares
The Pelican {short story} (1996) 5 exemplares
Atrophy (in Stories Volume One) (2009) 5 exemplares
Three Great American Novels (1953) 5 exemplares
BACK TO COMPOSTELA (2011) 4 exemplares
The Fullness of Life (2013) 4 exemplares
Quartet: Four Stories 4 exemplares
The Mission of Jane (2004) 4 exemplares
Escribir ficción (2012) 4 exemplares
Crucial Instances; Sanctuary (2007) 4 exemplares
A Journey (2014) 3 exemplares
Seltsame Ehegeschichten (1992) 3 exemplares
Contos (Portuguese Edition) (2007) 3 exemplares
A Coward (2015) 3 exemplares
Triangoli imperfetti 3 exemplares
Meistererzählungen. (1994) 3 exemplares
Encanto y compañía (1900) 3 exemplares
After Holbein (2015) 3 exemplares
Vârsta inocenţei (2011) 3 exemplares
Cuentos completos II. 1909-1937 (1900) 3 exemplares
Estate (1993) 3 exemplares
Mrs. Manstey's View (2013) 3 exemplares
Criticar ficción (2012) 3 exemplares
Four Classic Horror Stories (2020) 2 exemplares
Madame de Treynes 2 exemplares
Estiu (2023) 2 exemplares
TREASURY (1950) 2 exemplares
La sombra de la duda (2019) 2 exemplares
Preuve d'amour (2005) 2 exemplares
Xingn??? 2 exemplares
El vici de la lectura (2020) 2 exemplares
The Poetry Of Edith Wharton (2013) 2 exemplares
Unheimliche Geschichten (1991) 2 exemplares
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 exemplares
Gruselkabinett: Verhext (2010) 2 exemplares
Parson's Pleasure / The Other Two (2010) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Verão 2 exemplares
The Last Asset [short story] (2013) 2 exemplares
The Moving Finger (1996) 2 exemplares
Pedra de Toque, A (2015) 1 exemplar
“The Portrait” 1 exemplar
The House of Mirth (1998) 1 exemplar
Iki Kiz Kardes (2013) 1 exemplar
Fantasmi (2022) 1 exemplar
Sanctuary (2017) 1 exemplar
Relato em Marrocos 1 exemplar
Falso Amanhecer 1 exemplar
Il giorno dei morti (2011) 1 exemplar
Il ritorno a casa 1 exemplar
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 exemplar
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplar
Pienezza di vita 1 exemplar
Καλοκαίρι 1 exemplar
Uskyldens år (1993) 1 exemplar
Świat zabawy 1 exemplar
Eté - Collector (2022) 1 exemplar
Siostry Bunner 1 exemplar
Au temps de l'innocence (2017) 1 exemplar
Wharton Novels 1 exemplar
Age of innocence, The (1920) 1 exemplar
“Roman Fever” 1 exemplar
L'incidente 1 exemplar
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 exemplar
OBSTACOLE 1 exemplar
Una dona soltera (2023) 1 exemplar
Twelve poems (1926) 1 exemplar
APRIL SHOWERS (1900) 1 exemplar
Edith Wharton's Verse (2008) 1 exemplar
Edith Wharton, 10 volumes (1902) 1 exemplar
A TUSCAN SHRINE (1895) 1 exemplar
Cuentos 1 exemplar
The Angel at the Grave (2014) 1 exemplar
El diagnóstico 1 exemplar
The refugees (1995) 1 exemplar
The Works of Edith Wharton (2009) 1 exemplar
Gli infelicissimi 1 exemplar
Wharton Edith 1 exemplar
The old maid 1 exemplar
El día del entierro (2013) 1 exemplar
The Verdict (2013) 1 exemplar
Piedra de toque (2011) 1 exemplar
The Scribner Treasury (1953) 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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The Book of Fantasy (1940) — Contribuidor — 586 exemplares
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (2004) — Contribuidor — 578 exemplares
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 537 exemplares
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — Contribuidor — 490 exemplares
Great American Short Stories (1957) — Contribuidor — 487 exemplares
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Contribuidor — 443 exemplares
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Contribuidor — 420 exemplares
Great Short Stories by American Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 402 exemplares
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contribuidor — 361 exemplares
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories (2015) — Contribuidor — 321 exemplares
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contribuidor — 293 exemplares
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Contribuidor — 287 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 274 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It (1918) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (1993) — Contribuidor — 181 exemplares
Stories to Remember {complete} (1956) — Contribuidor — 181 exemplares
Love Letters (1996) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
Sixteen Short Novels (1985) — Contribuidor — 172 exemplares
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contribuidor — 160 exemplares
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Contribuidor — 156 exemplares
The Age of Innocence [1993 film] (1993) — Original book — 153 exemplares
Vampires, Wine, and Roses (1997) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contribuidor, algumas edições147 exemplares
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Contribuidor — 144 exemplares
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (2006) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Contribuidor — 134 exemplares
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (2007) — Contribuidor — 130 exemplares
Stories to Remember, Volume II (1956) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Chilling Horror Short Stories (2016) — Contribuidor — 120 exemplares
The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (1996) — Contribuidor — 115 exemplares
The Lifted Veil: Women's 19th Century Stories (2005) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contribuidor — 109 exemplares
Chilling Ghost Short Stories (2015) — Artista da capa — 109 exemplares
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contribuidor, algumas edições98 exemplares
The Scribner Treasury: 22 Classic Tales (1952) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições91 exemplares
The American Fantasy Tradition (2002) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
Famous Ghost Stories (A Watermill Classic) (1980) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Erotic Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
Great Vampire Stories (1992) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Screaming Skull and Other Great American Ghost Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women (2012) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Children of the Night (2007) — Autor — 67 exemplares
The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (2015) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
A Fabulous Formless Darkness (1991) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
Haunted House Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Love Stories (1983) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 10: Ghosts (1988) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Infinite Riches (1993) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
The Secret Self 2: Short Stories by Women (1987) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 (1656) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century (2014) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
The Mists from Beyond (1993) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
The House of Mirth [2000 film] (2001) — Original novel — 48 exemplares
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (2008) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
The Experience of the American Woman (1978) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
The Ultimate Halloween (2001) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Haunted Library: Classic Ghost Stories (2016) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Anthology of Fear 20 Haunting Stories for Winter Nights (1988) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Some Things Fierce and Fatal (1971) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
XII Twelve Short Novels (1961) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Round the Christmas Fire: Festive Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Midnight Specials (1977) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Secret Self: A Century of Short Stories by Women (1995) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Medusa's Daughters (2020) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Rediscoveries: American Short Stories by Women, 1832-1916 (1994) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Bodies of the Dead and Other Great American Ghost Stories (1995) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (2001) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Stories for the Dead of Night (1957) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas (2017) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
The Buccaneers [1995 TV mini series] (2006) — Original book — 24 exemplares
Footsteps in the Dark: Short Stories (2020) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
The Ninth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1973) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories (2019) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Eight Short Novels (1967) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Women's Friendships: A Collection of Short Stories (1991) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
American gothic : An anthology 1787–1916 (1999) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (2022) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Enter At Your Own Risk: Fires and Phantoms (2012) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Fiction International 22: Pornography & Censorship (1992) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Back from the Dead (1991) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926 (1996) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Ethan Frome [1993 film] (1993) — Original novel; Autor, algumas edições14 exemplares
Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2018) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Love Stories: Classic Tales of Romance (2010) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2021) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology (1920) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants (1947) — Contribuidor, algumas edições9 exemplares
Uncanny Tales 3 (1975) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Mystery in the Mainstream: An Anthology of Literary Crimes (1986) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Joy of Living (1902) — Tradutor, algumas edições5 exemplares
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Goed verteld : een verrassende bundel internationale verhalen (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Evergreen Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Classic Women's Literature (2001) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
The Anthology of Love and Romance (1994) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume I (2005) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Wives and Lovers — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Erotica: racconti di amore e sesso al femminile (1992) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Wigilia Pełna Duchów (2019) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Great Classic Womens Fiction (2011) 3 exemplares
Bukcase I (2005) 2 exemplares
The Age of Innocence [1934 film] (2011) — Original book — 2 exemplares
Representative Modern Short Stories (1929) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Travel & Adventure: The Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories (2012) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
A Reader for Writers — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Contos Dramáticos — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel (1997) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Virginia's Sisters: An anthology of women's writing (2023) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Wharton, Edith
Nome legal
Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
Data de nascimento
1862-01-24
Data de falecimento
1937-08-11
Localização do túmulo
Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
Causa da morte
stroke
Locais de residência
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
Educação
at home
Ocupações
novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer
Relações
Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband)
Prémios e menções honrosas
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)

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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.

Membros

Discussions

Folio Archives 267: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 1990 em Folio Society Devotees (Abril 2022)
Found: Wharton-esque Americans in Italy em Name that Book (Abril 2022)
December 2021: Edith Wharton em Monthly Author Reads (Janeiro 2022)
Group Read, June 2021: The Glimpses of the Moon em 1001 Books to read before you die (Julho 2021)
August: Reading Edith Wharton em Monthly Author Reads (Junho 2018)
March Read: Edith Wharton em Virago Modern Classics (Maio 2017)
1913: Wharton - The Custom of the Country em Literary Centennials (Fevereiro 2014)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-34 em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Novembro 2011)
***Group Read: The Age of Innocence em The Highly-Rated Book Group (Outubro 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 14-24 em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Outubro 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 1-13 em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Outubro 2011)
The AGE OF INNOCENCE Group Read: Main Thread em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Outubro 2011)

Críticas

Adorei a história deste livro. Não só é uma linda história de amor, daquelas que vai ficar para sempre na memória, é também uma crítica à sociedade da época (finais do século XIX), uma sociedade onde se evitava a todo o custo o desagradável. Onde o individual era sacrificado pelo cumprimento das regras da sociedade, o que implicava, muitas vezes, renunciar à felicidade e ao amor devido ao cumprimento de compromissos assumidos.
O final não foi o que idealizei, mas considerando a personalidade de Archer, sei que era o único final possível...… (mais)
 
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Zoe Akins Author
Casey Robinson Screenplay
Louisa May Alcott Contributor
Kent Ljungquist Introduction
Stanley Applebaum General editor
Gore Vidal Introduction
Frederick Wegener Editor & Introduction
Barbara Leigh-Hunt Contributor, Narrator
Max Steiner Composer
Hal B. Wallis Producer
Wilkie Collins Contributor
Marcel Proust Contributor
Saki Contributor
Cynthia Griffin Wolff Introduction, Editor
Gabrielle Bordwin Cover designer
Marilyn French Introduction, Afterword
Candace Waid Introduction, Contributor
Tommaso Pisanti Introduction, Editor
Gerard Cheshire Contributor
Keith Carabine Editor, Series editor
Stephen Orgel Introduction, Editor
Diane Johnson Introduction
Lorna Raver Narrator
Elaine Showalter Introduction, Editor
Pietro Negri Translator
Maureen Howard Introduction
Matthew Woodson Illustrator
Flo Gibson Narrator
Brenda Dayne Narrator
Dick Hill Narrator
Phoebe Judge Narrator
Stephen Shore Photographer
William Lyon Phelps Introduction
Mary Sarah Narrator
Romà Ribera Cover artist
Penelope Lively Introduction
Raver Lorna Narrator
Alan Munro Narrator
E. M. Forster Introduction
Anna Fields Narrator
Luciana Pirè Translator
Eleanor Bron Narrator
Edmond Aman-Jean Cover artist
A. B. Wenzell Illustrator
Janet Beer Editor
Nina Bawden Introduction
Joseph Bartelli Illustrator
Lev Raphael Contributor
Henry Varnum Poor Illustrator
Elisabetta Rasy Introduction
Robin Peel Editor
Jennifer Basset Series Editor
Gela Pez Translator
Edith Peel Editor
Ángela Pérez Translator
Xavier Pàmies Translator
Helen T. Munn Foreword
Susanna Moore Afterword
L. Augelini Translator
Bruce Rogers Designer
Lionel Trilling Contributor
Carroll D Wright Contributor
Pamela Scott Wilkie Cover artist
Claudia Wenner Translator
Vito Amoruso Introduction
Bernard De Voto Introduction
E H Van Deusen Contributor
John Twachtman Cover artist
Joseph Tomanek Cover Art
Richard Thomas Translator
Karin Suursalu Translator
Lucio Angelini Translator
Adam Sims Narrator
Anita Shreve Foreword
Yuan Shi Illustrator
James McConnell Illustrator
Taciser Belge Translator
Charles Ziga Designer
Jeffrey Brown Illustrator
Michael He Illustrator
C M Hébert Narrator
Scott Marshall Contributor
Doris Grumbach Introduction
Djuke Houweling Translator
Charlotte Gerlings Introduction
Judith Fryer Contributor
Mary Flanagan Introduction
Clifton Fadiman Introduction
E. Dal Fabbro Traduttore
Greti Ducci Translator
Kathryn Delaney Cover designer
Bernard De Voto Introduction
William Hope Narrator
Marcella Hannau Translator
Scott Brick Narrator
Tiziana Lo Porto Translator
Pierre Leyris Traduction
Emily Hutchinson Abridged edition by
Pamela Knights Introduction
Harold Bloom Introduction
Terje Kuusik Toimetaja.
Alfred Kazin Afterword
Paul E. Kennedy Cover designer
Joni Jacobs Cover designer
Jim Killavey Narrator
Jüri Kaarma Kujundaja.
Linda Wagner-Martin Editor, Introduction
Grace Conlin Narrator
A. Stevens Cover artist
Joss Barratt Cover artist
Janet Beer Goodwyn Introduction
Maggie Wadey Screenplay
Roxana Robinson Editor, Introduction
Mary Gordon Introduction
Penelope Farmer Introduction
Edwin Björkman Afterword
Geoffrey Walton Afterword
Elizabeth Strout Introduction
Gustaf Ankarcrona Cover artist
Seth Illustrator
Maxfield Parrish Illustrator
Pilar Adón Translator
Yolanda Morató Introduction
E C Peixotto Illustrator
Mari Devon Narrator

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