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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Edith Wharton |
 | | In this year also, Wharton wrote her third travel-book, A Motor-Flight Through Flight, which chronicled several extended excursions, some with Henry James; it was a very lively addition to a genre in which Wharton would continue to excel. | | | At her best a Modernist without the narrative trappings of Modernism, Wharton's reputation has almost certainly thrived because her novels are highly readable, wrought by a commanding story-teller whose famously glacial approach to her subjects is if anything exhilarating rather than off-putting to the contemporary reader. | | | Between 1903 and 1911, when Wharton moved to France, she completed three novels, three volumes of stories, two novellas, and three works of non-fiction. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4677
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| | Edith Wharton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | She spoke flawless French and many of her books were published in both French and English. | | | However the "accident" does not kill him but leaves him maimed and more trapped than before, an ending of great dramatic and symbolic power. | | | Pushkin Press - Edith Wharton - Glimpses of the Moon |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton
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| | Edith Wharton's World |
| | Edith was privately educated, read widely in her father's "gentleman's library," and grew up amidst genteel surroundings as a prim and proper little lady. | | | Organized by Wharton authorities Eleanor Dwight and Viola Hopkins Winner, it explores the life and times of the celebrated author by means of 100 paintings, miniatures, photographs, books and memorabilia. | | | Appearing a century ago and still in print, it was her first published book. |
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http://antiquesandthearts.com/archive/wharton.htm
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| | Edith Wharton |
| | Wharton gained first success with her book The House of Mirth (1905), a story of a beautiful but poor woman, Lily Bart, trying to survive in the pitiless New York City. | | | Wharton's other major works include the long tale Ethan Frome (1911) which was set in impoverished rural New England. | | | Berenson later told his wife Mary that when he had a dinner with Edith in a hotel, she "eyed a young man at a neighboring table and said: 'When I see such a type my first thought is how to put him into my next novel.'" |
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http://www.classicreader.com/author.php/aut.39
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| | Alibris: Edith Wharton |
| | Wharton's fans, as well as readers eager to learn more about the literary, social, and historical forces that shaped this honored American author, are certain to be informed and entertained by this excellent self-portrait. | | | The second Edith Wharton volume in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment. | | | Struck by the magnificence of the Italian countryside from the time of her first sojourn there, our ranking novelist and lady of letters of the early 1900s--a renowned connoisseur--joined forces with the foremost illustrator of the time to celebrate a subject that was dear to them both: incomparable villas and gardens of Italy. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Wharton,Edith
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| | Wharton |
| | The collection also contains four manuscript poems, three written by Edith Wharton (among her letters to Morton Fullerton) and one by an unidentified author. | | | Other materials relating to Wharton at the HRHRC can be found in the John Lane, Mary Augusta Ward, and Elizabeth Hardwick collections. | | | The correspondence described here came to light in 1980 and was purchased by the Ransom Center from a Parisian owner through Zeitlen and Ver Brugge Booksellers. |
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http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/wharton.html
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| | Edith Wharton, author of "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence" |
| | Edith Wharton was a superb writer of supernatural tales, and included in the last volume are such classics as ‘Afterward’, ‘The Lady’s Maid’s Bell’ and ‘Pomegranate Seed’ (I was less impressed by the much-anthologised ‘The Eyes’). | | | Wharton was wrong about Joyce and Eliot, but she was right about much else - and who can blame her for writing about her own world in its own rhetorical but expressive language? | | | Edith Wharton A to Z : The Essential Guide to the Life and Work (The Literary A to Z Series) |
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http://www.kruse.co.uk/wharton.htm
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| | Current.org How "The Buccaneers" came to TV |
| | Wharton had finished only three-fifths of the novel's manuscript when she died in 1937. | | | The book "comprised some work as good as any she had ever done and some that she would never have allowed to appear as it stood," Lapsley wrote in his afterword of the first edition in 1938. | | | This is how Wharton ends her summary of The Buccaneers plot line, starting at the point where her completed chapters leave off. |
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http://www.current.org/prog/prog516b.html
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| | The Literary Gothic Edith Wharton |
| | Another example of the moral use to which Wharton could put the ghostly tale, although it's not an easy or conventional moral tale.... | | | American writer (birthname Edith Jones, which I mention because it may have implications for one of her ghost stories, "Mr. | | | This is one of Wharton's better ghost stories, in my opinion.... |
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http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/wharton.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics): Books: Edith Wharton,Laura Dluzynski ... |
| | Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. | | | Wharton reaches the heights achieved by England's George Eliot in Middlemarch. | | | Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/014018970X?v=glance
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| | Bookslut Edith Wharton |
| | But a marriage built on the betrayal of another, even after their death, is not guaranteed success. | | | If your interest has been piqued by this, then the best place to start is with either of the editions of The Touchstone mentioned above, and then perhaps try the Penguin Classics Portable Edith Wharton, which contains a representative selection of short stories and Summer in its entirety. | | | The books produced by both of these publishers are elegant and attractive. |
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http://www.bookslut.com/small_but_perfectly_formed/2005_01_003994.php
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| | Edith Wharton, 1862-1937 |
| | Edith Wharton: A Life in Pictures and Text | | | Illustrations from the first edition of The House of Mirth. | | | Fighting France from Dunquerque to Belforte (1915, 1918) Illustrated HTML version at Carnegie Mellon. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/wharton.htm
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| | The Edith Wharton Society |
| | Link to the The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in the Berkshires | | | The Edith Wharton Society offers Wharton scholars and other interested persons an opport | | | New Queries (edition of French Ways and their Meaning; Edith Wharton's dogs) |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton
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| | Beatrix Farrand- "Landscape Gardener" |
| | And though Edith was only connected to Beatrix's mother by marriage, both Beatrix and her mother Mary maintained close ties with Edith Wharton long after Beatrix' parent's divorce. | | | Gordon Bell in Connecticut, and Emily Vanderbilt Sloane among others. | | | Beatrix Farrand was the writer Edith Wharton's niece. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA99/hall/Dumbartonoaks/farrand_dum.html
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| | Edith Wharton |
| | Like James's The Jolly Corner, Wharton's The Eyes (1910) is a ghost story written by a canonical realist. | | | The story can be read as a commentary on the Anglo-American literary scene before World War I, in which gentility, sanctioned pretense, and decorum all had to be reckoned with. | | | Her literary aspirations were at odds with the domestic pursuits of her social circle; she published two poems when she was sixteen but did not commit to being a writer until her late thirties, when her marriage was disintegrating. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal5/explore/wharton.htm
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| | Edith Wharton (1862-1937) |
| | For Wharton, I might ask students to reread "The Valley of Childish Things" and then write their own gender parable for the late twentieth century of about the same length and structural strategy. | | | Three provocative books are: Elizabeth Ammons, Edith Wharton's Argument with America (1980), Cynthia Griffin Woolf, A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton (1977), and Candace Waid, Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld (1991). | | | Wharton can be used to show perfect mastery of conventional form. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wharton.html
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| | Edith Wharton |
| | Wharton - Collected Stories 1891 - 1910 (2001) | | | The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton (2004) | | | Among her best-known work is Ethan Frome, which is considered her greatest tragic story, The House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. |
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/edith-wharton
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| | Life overview |
| | Her role as a daughter of society was to learn the mannerisms and rituals expected of well bred young women in those days. | | | Wharton was able to live comfortably on her earnings the rest of her life. | | | Meanwhile Edith had met and fallen in love with Morton Fullerton and had been sexually awakened as a 46 year old woman living virtually on her own in Paris. |
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http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/6741/lifeoverview.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Edith Wharton |
| | She later wrote a sequel set in Europe, The Gods Arrive (1932). | | | Wharton’s short-story collections include Xingu and Other Stories (1916), and her poetry collections include Artemis to Actœon (1909) and Twelve Poems (1926). | | | Wharton’s works typically concern the ethical dilemmas of upper-class characters. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572877/Wharton_Edith_Newbold.html
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| | Edith Wharton |
| | (1905), Wharton depicted the contemporary world of the very rich and its materialism. | | | Wharton's diary reveals her joy in their passionate lovemaking and in the intellectual communion she felt with him, all of which had been so painfully missing in her marriage. | | | Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902. |
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http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/whar3.htm
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| | Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones |
| | Her early stories and tales were collected in The Greater Inclination (1899), Crucial Instances (1901), and The Descent of Man (1904); somewhat narrow in scope, they nevertheless show the unity of mood and the lucid, polished prose style of her more mature works. | | | Wharton is also the author of travel books (e.g., Italian Backgrounds, 1905), literary criticism, and poetry. | | | In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker; after the first few years of marriage Edward Wharton became mentally ill, and the burden of caring for him fell upon his wife. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Wharton,+Edith+Newbold+Jones
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| | Literature Film Quarterly: Re-creating Edith Wharton's New York in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence |
| | Film critic Jay Cocks gave him a copy of Edith Wharton's 1922 novel in 1980. | | | She consulted the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress, Edith Wharton scholars, and art historians to unearth the minutiae of New York social life in the last decades of the nineteenth century (Merkin 48). | | | Scorsese reread The Age of Innocence while traveling through England and Scotland by train in the winter of 1987 and was especially struck by the scene in which Newland Archer tries to tell his wife he wants to leave her for the Countess Ellen Olenska (Christie 11). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_199801/ai_n8770341
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| | Edith Wharton |
| | We can also see from Stevens' insistence in the truth of the event that perhaps the inner truths were something that Wharton was born knowing. | | | Wharton probably has not suffered the same level of doubt of her work as some other women writers, in part because of her Pulitzer Prize. | | | Wharton was divorced from her husband in 1913, in part because she and her husband had grown into separate lives, and in part because her husband had numerous infidelities. |
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http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/wharton1.htm
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| | Edith Wharton Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com |
| | In fact it began early, with her verses recommended to Atlantic by Longfellow himself. | | | When Wharton wrote to him explaining the sorrow of her marriage, James replied to her, "Keep making the movements of life". | | | A novella, The Touchstone (1900), followed but Wharton's reputation was founded upon a novel about a failed social climber, The House of Mirth (1905). |
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http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/56
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| | Edith Wharton Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | - Read the works of Edith Wharton online at The Literature Page | | | A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). |
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Edith_Wharton
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| | Edith Wharton links |
| | Hypertext of Xingu: one of Wharton's stories, explicated as a hypertext by Raza Syed | | | E-text of Edith Wharton's poetry, from various journals where they were originally published, housed at Virginia. | | | Edith Wharton Society Page-- a new page sponsored by a group of scholars dedicated to studying Wharton. |
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http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/whartonlinks.htm
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| | Edith Wharton in the News |
| | Copeland said, will be Wharton's copy of "The Decoration of Houses" - the first work of prose published under her name in 1897, with her co-author, Ogden Codman Jr. | | | But Wharton was among the first female writers to write about the single woman's ambivalence toward marriage. | | | Copeland said, was financed by a loan from an anonymous benefactor, whom she would identify only as a businessman. |
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| | Fiction: Edith Wharton |
| | Wharton's other well-known works include The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911). | | | This page gives you useful biographical information as well as bibliographies of biographical and critical essays and books on Wharton that are a good resource if you are writing on her work. | | | Her best known works are those that subtly critique the New York high society in which she was raised, in particular the place of women in that society. |
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http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/wharton.htm
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| | Who's Who in the Twentieth Century: Wharton, Edith @ HighBeam Research |
| | Wharton, Edith (Edith Newbold Jones; 1862–1937) US novelist whose writing explores, through witty and satirical observation of the manners of fashionable society, the conflict between social duty and the aspirations of the individual. | | | Who's Who in the Twentieth Century: Wharton, Edith @ HighBeam Research | | | Born into a wealthy New England family, she was educated at home. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1O47:WhartonEdith/Wharton,+Edith.html?refid=ip_hf
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| | American Writers: Edith Wharton |
| | Her major literary model was the older Henry James, who became a close friend; her work reveals James's concern for form and ethical issues, and James himself did much to promote her work. | | | orn into a distinguished family, Wharton was educated privately at home and in Europe. | | | In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, a wealthy Boston banker, and a few years later resumed the literary career she had begun tentatively as a young girl. |
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http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/wharton.asp
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| | Edith Wharton @Web English Teacher |
| | The Edith Wharton Review, works online, bibliography, recommended works, a teaching guide, archives, and list-serv. |
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| | The Mount Edith Wharton's Estate and Gardens |
| | The Bookstore at The Mount stocks an ever-changing selection of used and rare Wharton titles, as well as other fine gifts and objets which reflect Mrs. | | | Stephanie Copeland, President and Executive Director of The Mount, the National Historic Landmark country estate in Lenox, MA, designed and built in 1902 by world famous author Edith Wharton, today announced the purchase of the writer’s 2,600 volume library from rare book dealer and bibliophile George Ramsden, owner of Stone Trough Books, Settrington, Yorkshire, England. | | | The Mount is closed for the 2005 season |
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http://www.edithwharton.org
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Edith Wharton Page |
| | Cynthia Griffin Wollf, A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton. | | | The handiest collection of Wharton is to be found in two volumes of the Library of America: | | | Selected and annotated by Cynthia Griffin Wollf, 1990. |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/wharton.htm
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| | Penn State's Electronic Classics Series Edith Wharton Page |
| | Go to the Edith Wharton Society home page. | | | This page created and maintained by Jim Manis; last updated November 19, 2000. | | | Penn State's Electronic Classics Series Edith Wharton Page |
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http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/wharton.htm
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