Edith Wharton
61) Criticar ficción
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Wharton, además de una novelista absolutamente actual, cuyos libros se reeditan continuamente, fue durante toda su carrera una activa divulgadora de la lectura y la escritura, de la gran literatura en todas sus formas. En sus ensayos y artículos Wharton se ocupó de la obra de contemporáneos como Henry James y de clásicos como Proust o Eliot, trazó perfiles biográficos de sus autores predilectos, reseñó los títulos que consideraba necesarios,...
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Wharton's 1901-04 travels yielded nine ruminations about Italy, its culture, and the art of being a perceptive visitor. Includes "An Alpine Posting-Inn," "A Midsummer Week's Dream," "The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps," "What the Hermits Saw," "A Tuscan Shrine," "Sub Umbra Liliorum," "March in Italy," and "Picturesque Milan."
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A free-spirited young American attempts to extricate herself from a failed marriage to an aristocratic Frenchman in Edith Wharton's entertaining novella. "Madame de Treymes," written in 1907, offers a concise perspective on the differences between American and French society from the vantage point of a master storyteller who is also an astute observer of European manners and customs. This compilation of Wharton's short fiction features three additional...
65) Marcel Proust
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Este ensayo conforma el último capítulo de la obra Escribir ficción que la prolífica escritora estadounidense Edith Wharton publicó en entregas en 1925 y en la que ofrece comentarios generales sobre las raíces de la ficción moderna, las múltiples formas en las que se puede escribir una obra de ficción y el desarrollo de la forma y el estilo. Contemporánea del autor de En busca del tiempo perdido, quedó impresionada por la forma en que Proust...
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Read the American classic in English and French. This novella follows a family whose temperament reflects that of the New England countryside around them: cold, empty, seemingly without end. Odéon Bilingue makes reading in two languages fun and simple. All paragraphs are numbered and appropriately placed side-by-side. Save for a few exceptions, all paragraphs begin and end on the same page, thus eliminating unnecessary page-flipping.
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His sabbatical in Europe cut abruptly short by the opening hostilities of the First World War, Charlie Durand, a professor of romance languages, finds himself caught up with a wave of Belgian refugees fleeing to London. Rescued, as it were, by Audrey Rushworth, a flustered yet determined noblewoman, Charlie is hustled off to the English countryside. Only, Charlie isn't really a refugee . . . Playful and insightful, Edith Wharton's "The Refugees" reflects...
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Born into wealth and aristocracy, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a member as well as an observer of fashionable New York society. Aspirations to authorship consigned her to outsider status among the idle rich; nevertheless, she drew upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful novels and short stories about people from all walks of life. This well-rounded introduction to Wharton's works features the complete...
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Lily Bart ist jung, schön und ein gern gesehener Gast auf den gesellschaftlichen Events der New Yorker High Society. Doch mit dem Ruin ihrer Familie kann sie ihr Leben in den feinen Kreisen nur fortführen, wenn sie einen reichen Ehemann findet. Lily muss sich entscheiden: Will sie als bloßes Schmuckstück an der Seite eines Mannes Reichtum und Luxus – oder will sie ein Leben gemäß ihrer tatsächlichen Gefühle?
Wie in "Zeit der Unschuld" zeigt...
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Diagnosed with typhoid fever at age of nine, Edith Wharton was beginning a long convalescence when she was given a book of ghost tales to read. Not only setting back her recovery, this reading opened up her fevered imagination to "a world haunted by formless horrors." So chronic was this paranoia that she was unable to sleep in a room with any book containing a ghost story. She was even moved to burn such volumes. These fears persisted until her late...
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Immerse yourself in the lives of the social elite with Edith Wharton's timeless stories. The Selected Novels of Edith Wharton includes the best-known of the author's works: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Madame de Treymes.A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms.
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This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Hudson River Bracketed' is a novel about a brilliant woman, Halo Spear, and an uneducated man, Vance Weston, who form a deep bond through literature. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner's Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her...
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Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The novellas reveal the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the...
76) The Choice
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This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Choice' is a tale about a man who is in the process of losing the family fortune and whose wife and lawyer seem unable to control. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner's Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories,...
77) Autres Temps
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Mrs. Lidcote, an American divorcée, returns to New York City from Florence to support her daughter through her own divorce and impending remarriage. Learning that divorce is no longer the societal death sentence that it had been, Mrs. Lidcote becomes hopeful that her own past may be forgiven.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Coming Home" (1916) by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
80) After Holbein
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A pair of elderly New York socialites, Anson Warley and Evelina Jasper, reveal the tragedy of the decay that comes with old age. Believing that they are sharing an extravagant meal at a busy dinner party, Anson and Evelina relive a night from their youth in the now-empty dining room at Jasper's once-opulent home.