Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Autor(a) de The Age of Innocence
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
Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 518 cópias
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 370 cópias
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 89 cópias
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 cópias
Anime attardate - La tragedia della Musa 13 cópias
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Autor — 9 cópias
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 cópias
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 cópias
Ghosts: Edith Wharton's Gothic Tales 5 cópias
Quartet: Four Stories 4 cópias
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 cópias
All Souls [short story] 3 cópias
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 cópias
Triangoli imperfetti 3 cópias
Madame de Treynes 2 cópias
Xingn??? 2 cópias
Verão 2 cópias
Ethan Frome Illustrated 2 cópias
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 cópias
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 cópias
A Motor-Flight Through France 2 cópias
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 cópias
The age of innocence 2 cópias
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 cópias
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 cópias
The Age of Innocence 1 exemplar(es)
False Dawn 1 exemplar(es)
“Roman Fever” 1 exemplar(es)
Summer 1 exemplar(es)
The Age of Innocence 1 exemplar(es)
The House of Mirth 1 exemplar(es)
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 exemplar(es)
The Glimpses of the Moon 1 exemplar(es)
The Age of Innocence 1 exemplar(es)
The Writing of Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Siostry Bunner 1 exemplar(es)
The House of Mirth 1 exemplar(es)
The Decoration of Houses 1 exemplar(es)
The Glimpses of the Moon Annotated 1 exemplar(es)
Sappho, literal translation with memoir 1 exemplar(es)
MOSHA E PAFAJESISE 1 exemplar(es)
A motor-flight through France (1908). By: Edith Wharton (Illustrated).: France, Description and travel (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
“The Portrait” 1 exemplar(es)
The fascinating tale of women’s independence 1 exemplar(es)
The War on All Fronts: Fighting France, Volume III 1 exemplar(es)
Ethan Frome, avagy egy szerelem csapdája 1 exemplar(es)
the glimpeses of the moon 1 exemplar(es)
Wharton Novels 1 exemplar(es)
El angel de la tumba 1 exemplar(es)
The Edith Wharton BBC Radio Drama Collection 1 exemplar(es)
A Son at the Front 1 exemplar(es)
Ethan frome and stories 1 exemplar(es)
Wharton Short Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Lettere a Morton Fullerton. 1907-1931 1 exemplar(es)
glimpse of the moon 1 exemplar(es)
House of Mirth (Signet Classics Edition) (64) by Wharton, Edith [Mass Market Paperback (2000)] (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 exemplar(es)
GOTHIC TALES: with an introduction by Edith Wharton 1 exemplar(es)
Old New York. The Old Maid. First Edition 1 exemplar(es)
the mother 1 exemplar(es)
Świat zabawy 1 exemplar(es)
L'eta' dell'innocenza - collana Rba - Fabbri -2004 1 exemplar(es)
14 Great Novels 1 exemplar(es)
In Morocco by Edith Wharton: Annotated 1 exemplar(es)
The Age of Innocence Collection: Old New York (False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year's Day), The Age of… 1 exemplar(es)
Pienezza di vita 1 exemplar(es)
The Age of Innocence 1 exemplar(es)
L'incidente 1 exemplar(es)
OBSTACOLE 1 exemplar(es)
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplar(es)
Ethan Frome & Summer (04) by Wharton, Edith - Knight, Denise D - Lauter, Paul [Paperback (2003)] 1 exemplar(es)
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 exemplar(es)
Καλοκαίρι 1 exemplar(es)
Wiek niewinnosci 1 exemplar(es)
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 exemplar(es)
Le fils et autres nouvelles 1 exemplar(es)
The Writing of Fiction 1 exemplar(es)
Relato em Marrocos 1 exemplar(es)
El diagnóstico 1 exemplar(es)
A motor-flight through France Volume 2 1 exemplar(es)
Edith Wharton: 14 Novels & 12 Audiobooks 1 exemplar(es)
Cuentos 1 exemplar(es)
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 1 exemplar(es)
The Works of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The House of Mirth… (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
A Bottle of Perrier 1 exemplar(es)
Certain People-6 stories 0200071-0200121 1 exemplar(es)
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 exemplar(es)
Charm Incorporated (in Stories Volume One) 1 exemplar(es)
A book of quotations 1 exemplar(es)
Gli infelicissimi 1 exemplar(es)
Edith Wharton's world: Portraits of people and places 1 exemplar(es)
Wharton Edith 1 exemplar(es)
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 exemplar(es)
Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition 1 exemplar(es)
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 exemplar(es)
Η γεροντοκόρη 1 exemplar(es)
The Collected Novels of Edith Wharton (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 1 exemplar(es)
The Collected Short Stories, Volume II 1 exemplar(es)
ETHAN FROME A Perfection Micro-Classic, #MC58 1 exemplar(es)
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 exemplar(es)
WARTON: NOVELLAS and OTHERS WRITINGS 1 exemplar(es)
WHARTON: COLLECTER SOTIES 1891-1910 1 exemplar(es)
Viaggio in Francia 1 exemplar(es)
Mother's Recompense 1 exemplar(es)
Walk in dread : twelve classic eerie tales. 1 exemplar(es)
Falso Amanhecer 1 exemplar(es)
Estío (13/20) (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar(es)
Il ritorno a casa 1 exemplar(es)
A Casa da Felicidade 1 exemplar(es)
Sussurros de Verão 1 exemplar(es)
Edith Wharton's New York City: A Backward Glance 1 exemplar(es)
10 Classic Feminist Works You Should Read: Little Women, The Yellow Wallpaper, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman,… 1 exemplar(es)
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 exemplar(es)
Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100 authors & 200 stories) 1 exemplar(es)
Cuentos completos de Edith Wharton 1 exemplar(es)
An Old New York Collection: Four Novels by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the… (2020) 1 exemplar(es)
Sorelle Bunner 1 exemplar(es)
Edith Wharton: The Complete Supernatural Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Der Unfall 1 exemplar(es)
Motor-Flight Through France, A 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contribuinte — 438 cópias
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contribuinte — 264 cópias
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuinte — 147 cópias
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Contribuinte — 145 cópias
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuinte — 131 cópias
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah OrneJewett, Edith Wharton… (1990) — Contribuinte — 124 cópias
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contribuinte — 121 cópias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuinte — 93 cópias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuinte — 83 cópias
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library (1998) — Autor, algumas edições — 64 cópias
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Contribuinte — 57 cópias
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1992) — Contribuinte — 57 cópias
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contribuinte — 41 cópias
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Contribuinte — 30 cópias
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — algumas edições — 25 cópias
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contribuinte — 25 cópias
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Femmes de Siècle: Stories from the 90s - Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries (1992) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Contribuinte — 15 cópias
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 cópias
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Wives and Lovers — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
A Reader for Writers — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Contos Dramáticos — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
70 Greatest Love Stories in Fiction: Historical Novels Edition (2021) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel (1997) — Original novel — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
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)
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