Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Autor de La edad de la inocencia
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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
Series
Obras de Edith Wharton
Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 518 copias
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 370 copias
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 89 copias
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 copias
Anime attardate - La tragedia della Musa 13 copias
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Autor — 9 copias
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 copias
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 copias
Ghosts: Edith Wharton's Gothic Tales 5 copias
Quartet: Four Stories 4 copias
All Souls [short story] 3 copias
Triangoli imperfetti 3 copias
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 copias
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 copias
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 copias
The age of innocence 2 copias
Ethan Frome Illustrated 2 copias
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 copias
Der Unfall 2 copias
A Motor-Flight Through France 2 copias
Madame de Treynes 2 copias
Xingn??? 2 copias
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 copias
Verão 2 copias
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 copias
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 copias
Summer 1 copia
“Roman Fever” 1 copia
Siostry Bunner 1 copia
“The Portrait” 1 copia
False Dawn 1 copia
L'incidente 1 copia
House of Mirth (Signet Classics Edition) (64) by Wharton, Edith [Mass Market Paperback (2000)] (2000) 1 copia
Wiek niewinnosci 1 copia
A Son at the Front 1 copia
The Age of Innocence 1 copia
The Age of Innocence 1 copia
The House of Mirth 1 copia
Wharton Short Stories 1 copia
Wiek niewinnosci 1 copia
The House of Mirth 1 copia
The Age of Innocence 1 copia
Ethan Frome & Summer (04) by Wharton, Edith - Knight, Denise D - Lauter, Paul [Paperback (2003)] 1 copia
A motor-flight through France (1908). By: Edith Wharton (Illustrated).: France, Description and travel (2017) 1 copia
The Decoration of Houses 1 copia
Wharton Novels 1 copia
the glimpeses of the moon 1 copia
The Glimpses of the Moon 1 copia
The Age of Innocence 1 copia
OBSTACOLE 1 copia
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 copia
the mother 1 copia
Ethan frome and stories 1 copia
glimpse of the moon 1 copia
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 copia
Le fils et autres nouvelles 1 copia
14 Great Novels 1 copia
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 copia
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 copia
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 copia
Καλοκαίρι 1 copia
Pienezza di vita 1 copia
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 copia
El angel de la tumba 1 copia
Świat zabawy 1 copia
Relato em Marrocos 1 copia
A Bottle of Perrier 1 copia
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 copia
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 copia
Gli infelicissimi 1 copia
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 copia
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 copia
Wharton Edith 1 copia
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 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
Η γεροντοκόρη 1 copia
Mother's Recompense 1 copia
Falso Amanhecer 1 copia
Estío (13/20) (Spanish Edition) 1 copia
Il ritorno a casa 1 copia
A Casa da Felicidade 1 copia
Viaggio in Francia 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
Motor-Flight Through France, A 1 copia
A book of quotations 1 copia
Sussurros de Verão 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Wharton, Edith
- Nombre legal
- Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1862-01-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1937-08-11
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
- Causa de fallecimiento
- stroke
- Lugares de residencia
- 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 - Educación
- at home
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer - Relaciones
- Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband) - Premios y honores
- 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) - Biografía breve
- 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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Debates
Folio Archives 267: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 1990 en Folio Society Devotees (abril 2022)
Found: Wharton-esque Americans in Italy en Name that Book (abril 2022)
December 2021: Edith Wharton en Monthly Author Reads (enero 2022)
Group Read, June 2021: The Glimpses of the Moon en 1001 Books to read before you die (julio 2021)
August: Reading Edith Wharton en Monthly Author Reads (junio 2018)
March Read: Edith Wharton en Virago Modern Classics (mayo 2017)
1913: Wharton - The Custom of the Country en Literary Centennials (Febrero 2014)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-34 en 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (noviembre 2011)
***Group Read: The Age of Innocence en The Highly-Rated Book Group (octubre 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 14-24 en 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (octubre 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 1-13 en 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (octubre 2011)
The AGE OF INNOCENCE Group Read: Main Thread en 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (octubre 2011)
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