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  • Fast and Loose

    Serier Bog 1 - Edith Wharton
    In 1877, at the age of 15, Edith Wharton secretly wrote a 30,000 word novellette "Fast and Loose". Despite not publishing this 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. Edith Wharton ... Læs mere

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  • The Age of Innocence

    Serier Bog 12 - Edith Wharton
    The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the ... Læs mere

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  • The Buccaneers

    Serier Bog 21 - Edith Wharton
    The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The novel is set in the 1870s, around the time Edith Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has also been invited. The book was published in 1938 in New York. Edith Wharton (1862 ... Læs mere

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  • The Custom of the Country

    Serier Bog 9 - Edith Wharton
    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. 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 ... Læs mere

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  • The Glimpses of the Moon

    Serier Bog 13 - Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton composed The Glimpses of the Moon after the end of World War I. She describes the postwar era in A Backward Glance, her autobiography, as a time when she faced the growing sense of the waste and loss wrought by the war's]irreparable years. The emotional landscape was one of bereavement: Death and mourning darkened the houses of all my friends, and I mourned with them, and mingled my ... Læs mere

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  • Hudson River Bracketed

    Serier Bog 19 - Edith Wharton
    Hudson River Bracketed tells a fascinating tale set in the 1920s. It features two intelligent, sensitive protagonists, Vance Weston and Halo Spear, both of whom love literature and, despite unhappy marriages to others, eventually come together. This is no sentimental novel, however, with the lovers overcoming all odds to marry and have children. (Abby H. P. Werlock, Edith Wharton Society) Edith ... Læs mere

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  • Madame de Treymes

    Serier Bog 6 - Edith Wharton
    "Madame de Treymes exhibits Wharton's subtle realism and is one of her works depicting Americans living in France. It tells of Fanny de Malrive, née Frisbee, a once free-spirited New Yorker now married to a French marquis. Like several of Wharton's female protagonists, she is trapped within an unhappy marriage as well as being constricted by the "sacred institutions" of the Parisian Faubourg St. ... Læs mere

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  • Complete Stories

    Edith Wharton

    Serier Bog 22 - Edith Wharton
    This volume contains the complete stories of Edith Wharton. 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 for Literature. She was inducted into the ... Læs mere

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  • The Reef

    Serier Bog 23 - Edith Wharton
    The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations. In a letter to Bernard Berenson in November 1912, Wharton expressed regret regarding her ... Læs mere

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  • The Mother’s Recompense

    Serier Bog 17 - Edith Wharton
    Lous Bromfield said that The Mother’s Recompense had been handled with a technical skill approached by only one other book we have read this year, The Great Gatsby (1925). "In 1925, at age sixty-three, Wharton published a singularly acrobatic variant of her mother-daughter theme, one in which the roles are reversed, so that the daughter becomes the nurturer of the mother. In The Mother's ... Læs mere

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  • The Marne

    Serier Bog 11 - Edith Wharton
    The Marne is named after the critical French battles along the Marne River during the First World War. Troy Belknap, is a wealthy American whose family is enjoying their annual summer visit to France when the Germans invade. Troy's tutor and close friend M. Grantier leaves for his hometown when news spreads of the German invasion. Troy's father, Mr. Belknap, secures space on a ship to the United ... Læs mere

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  • Summer

    Serier Bog 10 - Edith Wharton
    Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather ... Læs mere

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