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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.
Edith Wharton: Complete Works. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edith Wharton - Wisehouse Classics, 2020 -
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 National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. This volume contains Edith Wharton's complete works:NOVELS-Fast and Loose-The Touchstone.-The Valley of Decision.-Sanctuary.-The House of Mirth.-Madame de Treymes.-Fruit of the Tree.-Ethan Frome.-The Custom of the Country.-Summer.-The Marne.-The Age of Innocence.-The Glimpses of the Moon.-A Son at the Front.-Old New York: False Dawn.-Old New York: The Old Maid.-Old New York: The Spark.-Old New York: New Year’s Day.-The Mother’s Recompense.-Twilight Sleep.-The Children.-Hudson River Bracketed.-The Gods Arrive.-The Buccaneers.STORIES.-The Greater Inclination.-Crucial Instances.-The Descent of Man, and other stories.-The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other stories.-Tales of Men and Ghosts.-Xingu, and other Stories.-Here and Beyond.-Certain People.-Human Nature.-The World Over.-Uncollected Stories.POEMS.-Artemis to Actæon, and Other Verse.-Uncollected Poems.NON-FICTION.-The Decoration of Houses.-Italian Villas and Their Gardens.-Italian Backgrounds.-A Motor-Flight through France.-Fighting France from Dunkerque to Belport.-French Ways and Their Meaning.-In Morocco.-The Writing of Fiction.-A Backward Glance.
Ethan Fromewith an introduction by Edith Wharton. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Edith Wharton - Wisehouse Classics, 2019 -
ETHAN FROME is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history-or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions.Ethan Frome was written while Edith Wharton was living at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. Wharton likely based the story on an accident that she had heard about in 1904 in Lenox, Massachusetts. Five people total were involved in the real-life accident, four girls and one boy.