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Chi cerca i libri di Edith Wharton desidera immergersi nella raffinatezza dell'alta società americana tra il XIX e il XX secolo, analizzata attraverso una prosa ironica e tagliente. Seguire i libri in ordine cronologico di Edith Wharton permette di apprezzare l'evoluzione della sua critica sociale e la profonda introspezione psicologica dei suoi personaggi, offrendo al lettore una panoramica completa sulla trasformazione delle convenzioni borghesi e dei dilemmi morali nell'età del jazz e oltre.
Biografia dell'autore
Edith Wharton nasce a New York nel 1862. Cresciuta in una famiglia aristocratica, riceve un'educazione privata che alimenta la sua precoce passione per la letteratura. La sua carriera si sviluppa tra Stati Uniti ed Europa, dove risiede per lunghi periodi stringendo legami con intellettuali del tempo. La sua profonda conoscenza delle dinamiche dell'alta società newyorkese influenza ogni sua pagina. È stata la prima donna a ricevere il Premio Pulitzer per la narrativa nel 1921 grazie al suo lavoro più celebre. Muore in Francia nel 1937, lasciando un'impronta indelebile nella letteratura americana moderna.
Stile di scrittura
I libri di Edith Wharton sono caratterizzati da uno stile elegante, preciso e caratterizzato da un'ironia sottile rivolta ai costumi sociali. L'autrice è celebre per aver creato personaggi iconici come Ellen Olenska e Newland Archer in L'età dell'innocenza, icone di un conflitto eterno tra desiderio individuale e rigide aspettative sociali. La sua capacità di tratteggiare l'infelicità nascosta dietro facciate rispettabili, come accade in Ethan Frome o La casa della gioia, ha lasciato il segno nei lettori per la straordinaria modernità con cui descrive le trappole sociali che ancora oggi risuonano come moniti universali.
Ethan Frome. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edith Wharton - Passerino, 2019 -
Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, This love story has an emotional intensity made all the more poignant by the inarticulate reticence of Wharton's characters - a ménage à trois consisting of Frome, his querulous wife and her young girl cousin. With quiet assurance, Wharton conveys passion, malaise and tragedy with memorable impact. (Sophia Sackville-West, Evening Standard (London)) Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, 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. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
The House of Mirth. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edith Wharton - Passerino, 2020 -
The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by the American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the turn of the last century. Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society. In the words of one scholar, Wharton uses Lily as an attack on "an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class." Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, 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 was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.
The Age of Innocence. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edith Wharton - Passerino, 2019 -
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 award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'". The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class, "Gilded-Age" New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author, with publishers clamoring for her work. Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, 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. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.