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Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

Autor(a) de The Age of Innocence

379+ Works 55,929 Membros 1,280 Reviews 364 Favorited

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 de Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence (1920) 13,827 cópias
The House of Mirth (1905) 9,667 cópias
Ethan Frome (1911) — Autor — 9,451 cópias
The Custom of the Country (1913) 2,373 cópias
Summer (1917) 2,125 cópias
The Buccaneers (1937) 1,315 cópias
The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) 999 cópias
The Reef (1912) 817 cópias
Old New York (1924) 676 cópias
Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964) 572 cópias
The Children (1928) 489 cópias
Twilight Sleep (1927) 384 cópias
Madame de Treymes (1907) 379 cópias
The Mother's Recompense (1925) 348 cópias
The Decoration of Houses (1897) 318 cópias
The Touchstone (1900) 312 cópias
Ethan Frome / Summer (1982) 301 cópias
Bunner Sisters (1916) 283 cópias
Collected Stories 1911-1937 (2001) 260 cópias
Collected Stories 1891-1910 (2001) 247 cópias
In Morocco (1919) 238 cópias
Short Stories (1994) 222 cópias
Hudson River Bracketed (1929) 218 cópias
The Writing of Fiction (1925) 178 cópias
The Fruit of the Tree (1907) 178 cópias
The Reckoning (1600) 161 cópias
The Old Maid (1924) 154 cópias
Sanctuary (1903) 148 cópias
A son at the front (1923) 145 cópias
Souls Belated (1899) 120 cópias
The Gods Arrive (1932) 117 cópias
The Letters of Edith Wharton (1910) 113 cópias
Xingu (1916) 112 cópias
Ghosts (1937) 107 cópias
Afterward [short fiction] (1910) 92 cópias
Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) 84 cópias
Italian Backgrounds (1905) 74 cópias
The Valley of Decision (1902) 74 cópias
The Edith Wharton omnibus (1978) 73 cópias
The Stories of Edith Wharton (1982) 69 cópias
The Cruise of the Vanadis (2004) 47 cópias
The Greater Inclination (1899) 41 cópias
The Letters [short story] (1995) 38 cópias
The Marne (1918) 36 cópias
New Year's Day (1924) 35 cópias
The Vice of Reading (1900) 32 cópias
Edith Wharton Reader (1965) 32 cópias
Crucial Instances (1901) 31 cópias
The Eyes (1994) 29 cópias
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
The World Over (1936) 22 cópias
The Works of Edith Wharton (1987) 22 cópias
Cuentos inquietantes (2015) 21 cópias
Here and Beyond (1926) 18 cópias
Os Outros Dois (1994) 18 cópias
Xingu and Other Stories (1916) 18 cópias
Kerfol (1916) 17 cópias
The Book of the Homeless (1916) 16 cópias
Roman Fever [short story] (2014) 15 cópias
Certain People (1930) 13 cópias
Coming Home (2011) 13 cópias
The Choice (2010) 12 cópias
Human Nature (1933) 12 cópias
Pomegranate Seed (1993) 11 cópias
The Long Run (2004) 10 cópias
The Old Maid [1939 film] (1939) — Autor — 9 cópias
An Edith Wharton treasury (1950) 8 cópias
Her Son (1995) 8 cópias
The House Of The Dead Hand (2004) 7 cópias
Autres Temps (2011) 7 cópias
Une affaire de charme (2002) 7 cópias
Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 3 (2007) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias
The Lady's Maid's Bell (2004) 7 cópias
Bewitched [Short Story] (2017) 6 cópias
Mr. Jones (2008) 6 cópias
The Bolted Door (2004) 6 cópias
The Pelican {short story} (1996) 5 cópias
Three Great American Novels (1953) 5 cópias
Les Metteurs en scène (2001) 5 cópias
BACK TO COMPOSTELA (2011) 4 cópias
The Mission of Jane (2004) 4 cópias
Escribir ficción (2012) 4 cópias
The Fullness of Life (2013) 4 cópias
Estate (1993) 4 cópias
Contos (Portuguese Edition) (2007) 3 cópias
Meistererzählungen. (1994) 3 cópias
Mrs. Manstey's View (2013) 3 cópias
After Holbein (2015) 3 cópias
Vârsta inocenţei (2011) 3 cópias
A Journey (2014) 3 cópias
Seltsame Ehegeschichten (1992) 3 cópias
Encanto y compañía (1900) 3 cópias
Criticar ficción (2012) 3 cópias
A Coward (2015) 3 cópias
TREASURY (1950) 2 cópias
Preuve d'amour (2005) 2 cópias
Xingn??? 2 cópias
Fantasmi (2022) 2 cópias
Estiu (2023) 2 cópias
Four Classic Horror Stories (2020) 2 cópias
El vici de la lectura (2020) 2 cópias
La sombra de la duda (2019) 2 cópias
The Poetry Of Edith Wharton (2013) 2 cópias
The Moving Finger (1996) 2 cópias
Gruselkabinett: Verhext (2010) 2 cópias
Verão 2 cópias
Unheimliche Geschichten (1991) 2 cópias
Parson's Pleasure / The Other Two (2010) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 cópias
Keyif Evi (2010) 2 cópias
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The Angel at the Grave (2014) 1 exemplar(es)
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Racconti di uomini e fantasmi (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
Le fils et autres nouvelles (1991) 1 exemplar(es)
The Wharton Gothics (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Falsa partenza (2019) 1 exemplar(es)
Storie di New York (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
Il ritratto : Storie di New York (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
Mother's Recompense 1 exemplar(es)
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 exemplar(es)
Sorelle Bunner 1 exemplar(es)
Pelikan (2016) 1 exemplar(es)
Der Unfall 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Wharton, Edith
Nome de batismo
Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
Data de nascimento
1862-01-24
Data de falecimento
1937-08-11
Local de enterro
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
Ocupação
novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer
Relacionamentos
Clark, Colin (godson)
Farrand, Beatrix (niece)
Fullerton, William Morton (lover)
Wharton, Edward Robbins (ex-husband)
Premiações
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)
Pequena 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.

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)

Resenhas

Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes´ house - and into Ethan´s lonely life. But poverty is a prison from which few people escape . . .… (mais)
 
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AlbertLeonhardGieg | outras 7 resenhas | Nov 29, 2023 |
Havia pouca alegria ou inocência no mundo do qual Wharton conseguiu escapar (ela era muito mais feliz morando em Paris) House of Mirth não é um daqueles romances, como se diz, de xávenas de chá & guardanapos; ele é duro e perturbador. Wharton pincela sangue nas paredes da casa-título. A protagonista Lily Bart possui um aspecto assustadoramente eduardiano, ela é soberba, luminosa, conhecedora das coisas e convincentemente orgulhosa, ou então desesperada, conforme a situação exija. Mostra um alcance existencial deslumbrante em sua condição de heroína fadada. Lily é o tipo de heroína que conquista nossa proteção por nunca implorar por ela.
O estilo do romance é descontraído, ora simples, ora brilhante, perfazendo uma sátira amarga aos vôos e loucuras da sociedade de Nova York na Era Dourada da Belle Époque, uma cáustica tragédia de costumes que pode ser lida como um sonho sombrio e lânguido.
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jgcorrea | outras 199 resenhas | Oct 3, 2022 |
De grande e aveludado anacronismo, The Age of Innocence é um conto orquestrado de anseio romântico. Um romance de época, polido e elegante , embora incompleto, sobre a ¨inocente¨ esposa de um rico novaiorquino apaixonado por outra mulher que, jamais passando do flerte, o envolve em camadas de repressão vitoriana e prende-o entre as emoções do amor-paixão e a ética social burguesa.
 
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jgcorrea | outras 298 resenhas | Oct 1, 2022 |

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