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Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books ISBN: 625795990X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 128
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The Old Maid, Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her-the beautiful, upstanding Delia-and her true mother, her plain, unmarried "aunt" Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina's wedding day, when Delia's and Charlotte's hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Says Roxana Robinson in her Introduction, "Wharton weaves her golden, fine-meshed net about her characters with inexorable precision."
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof ISBN: 8728127293 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 91
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Classic Edith Wharton, ‘The Old Maid’ was first published as a serial in ‘The Red Book Magazine.’ Through this heart-rending and haunting tale, Wharton takes aim at the notions of conformity and delivers a scathing judgement on the conventions of life in the early 20th Century. In the story, the unmarried and prudish Charlotte Lovell gives up her baby daughter, Tina, to her married cousin, Delia. As time goes by and Tina grows, the two women must decide which of them is the ‘real’ mother and whether Tina should ever know the truth of her past. A searing and melancholic story from the pen of one of America’s greatest novelists. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.
Author: Zoë Akins Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 0573613362 Category : American drama Languages : en Pages : 120
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This is a dramatic version of an Edith Wharton novel set in the 19th century. The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her - the beautiful, upstanding Delia - and her true mother, her plain, unmarried "aunt" Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina's wedding day, when Delia's and Charlotte's hidden jealousies rush to the surface.
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: Blurb ISBN: 9781715710347 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 78
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
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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 class system, and the condition of women in society Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, and New Year's Day. The decades indicated in the subtitles to the stories make them prequels, after a fashion, to The Age of Innocence. All five might as well be cut from the same bolt of cloth, sharing settings, characters, social insight, a similar knowing eye for a telling detail. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She became known for her psychological examination of characters faced with changes in the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society. Her novels and short stories provide numerous expert characterizations of complex men and women.
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 232
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Tales of Old New York 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 New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence, from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society is directly reminiscent of The Age of Innocence, but these novellas are shaped more as character studies. Table of Contents: False Dawn (The Forties) The Old Maid (The Fifties) The Spark (The Sixties) New Year's Day (The Seventies)
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 223
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Old New York 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 New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence, from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society is directly reminiscent of The Age of Innocence, but these novellas are shaped more as character studies. Table of Contents: False Dawn (The Forties) The Old Maid (The Fifties) The Spark (The Sixties) New Year's Day (The Seventies)
Author: Edith Wharton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
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THE shepherd continued to steal his kiss from the shepherdess, and the clock in the fallen trunkcontinued to tick out the minutes.Delia, petrified, sat unconscious of their passing, her cousin clasped to her. She was dumb withthe horror and amazement of learning that her own blood ran in the veins of the anonymousfoundling, the "hundred dollar baby" about whom New York had so long furtively jested andconjectured. It was her first contact with the nether side of the smooth social surface, and shesickened at the thought that such things were, and that she, Delia Ralston, should be hearing ofthem in her own house, and from the lips of the victim! For Chatty of course was a victim-butwhose? She had spoken no name, and Delia could put no question: the horror of it sealed her lips.Her mind had instantly raced back over Chatty's past; but she saw no masculine figure in it but JoeRalston's. And to connect Joe with the episode was obviously unthinkable. Some one in the south, then-? But no: Charlotte had been ill when she left-and in a flash Delia understood the realnature of that illness, and of the girl's disappearance. But from such speculations too her mindrecoiled, and instinctively she fastened on something she could still grasp: Joe Ralston's attitudeabout Chatty's paupers. Of course Joe could not let his wife risk bringing contagion into theirhome-that was safe ground to dwell on. Her own Jim would have felt in the same way; and shewould certainly have agreed with him.Her eyes travelled back to the clock. She always thought of Clem Spender when she looked atthe clock, and suddenly she wondered-if things had been different-what he would have said if shehad made such an appeal to him as Charlotte had made to Joe. The thing was hard to imagine; yet ina flash of mental readjustment Delia saw herself as Clem's wife, she saw her children as his, shepictured herself asking him to let her go on caring for the poor waifs in the Mercer Street stable, andshe distinctly heard his laugh and his light answer: "Why on earth did you ask, you little goose? Doyou take me for such a Pharisee as that?