Summer By Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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SUMMER by Edith Wharton Pdf

A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer. The place lies high and in the open, and lacks the lavish shade of the more protected New England villages. The clump of weeping- willows about the duck pond, and the Norway spruces in front of the Hatchard gate, cast almost the only roadside shadow between lawyer Royall's house and the point where, at the other end of the village, the road rises above the church and skirts the black hemlock wall enclosing the cemetery.

Author : Roxana Robinson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611684704

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Summer Light by Roxana Robinson Pdf

A Maine vacation forces a young woman to challenge her own understanding of the world in a sharply insightful first novel

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804152938

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Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton Pdf

These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome-Wharton herself called it “the hot Ethan”-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes. All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers.

Author : Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440621390

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The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton,Marion Mainwaring Pdf

Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—soon to be an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.

Author : Joanna Lipper
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250086655

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Growing Up Fast by Joanna Lipper Pdf

Growing Up Fast tells the life stories of Shayla, Jessica, Amy, Colleen, Liz, and Sheri--six teen mothers whom Joanna Lipper first met in 1999 when they were enrolled at the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Less than a decade older than these teen parents, she was able to blend into the fabric of their lives and make a short documentary film about them. Over the course of the next four years she continued to earn their trust as they shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed post-industrial landscape of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664109088

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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Pdf

The House of Mirth 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. Lily is a woman 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.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368285418

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Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Helen Killoran
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131019

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The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton by Helen Killoran Pdf

Ironically, now that she is becoming recognized as a Modernist by some, and as perhaps the greatest American writer of her generation, the criticism often obfuscates more than it reveals. The reasons reside in critics' loyalties to various theoretical approaches, the objectivity of which are often compromised by political hopes. This volume not only traces and analyzes the development of Whartonian literary criticism in its historical and political contexts, but also allows Edith Wharton, herself a literary critic, to respond to various concepts through the author's deductions and extrapolations from Wharton's own words.

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031236204

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Indian Summer by William Dean Howells Pdf

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Library of America Edith Whart
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015017711725

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Edith Wharton: Novellas & Other Writings (LOA #47) by Edith Wharton Pdf

Divides American history into nine time periods stressing the contributions of various individuals to the history of each period.

Author : Ruthie Sommers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0865653968

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A Newport Summer by Ruthie Sommers Pdf

An intimate love letter to summertime in Newport from photographer Nick Mele, the "modern-day Slim Aarons," and interior designer Ruthie Sommers Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the last bastions of American high society. The grand Gilded Age houses that top its oceanside cliffs and line storied Bellevue Avenue are largely untouched by contemporary renovation and taste, and family heirlooms are passed down from generation to generation with Yankee thrift. Indeed, Newport has an understated elegance that sets it apart from other resort towns. Life behind the facades of these elaborate mansions is rarely revealed, but now, photographer Nick Mele and author Ruthie Sommers, both Iifelong Newport residents, share their entrée into the parties, lawn tennis matches, beach clambakes, and family gatherings that make up the glorious days of a Newport summer. Picture the foggy mornings of June, the traditional yacht races of July, the annual meeting of old friends at Marble House in August, and the melancholy close of the season after Labor Day. Through Sommers's personal, evocative text and Mele's exquisite photographs of people, parties, beaches, and houses, the intimate charms of A Newport Summer come poignantly to life.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106002154257

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Fast and Loose by Edith Wharton Pdf

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1587260921

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Ethan Frome and Summer by Edith Wharton Pdf

Author : Daven McQueen
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241460921

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The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen Pdf

Unsuspecting boy. Big-hearted girl. Small-minded town. Invincible summer. Summer, 1955. Calls for equality are sweeping America, but sixteen-year-old Ethan Harper is about to discover just how deep the roots of racism run. When mixed-race Ethan is sent to stay with his white uncle and aunt in Ellison, Alabama, he soon discovers that the only thing smaller than the town itself are the minds of its inhabitants. Except for Juniper Jones - resident artist, oddball and self-proclaimed free spirit. Ignoring the tide of prejudice and disapproval that follows Ethan, Juniper enlists him as her sidekick in her quest for an unforgettable summer. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, the pair set out to find their place in a town that's set on rejecting them. Along the way, they will find hope, friendship - and maybe something more . . .

Author : Richard Guy Wilson
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580933285

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Edith Wharton at Home by Richard Guy Wilson Pdf

The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic home, one can see the influence of Wharton’s inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount’s impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself. The Mount sits in the rolling landscape of the Berkshire Hills, with views overlooking Laurel Lake and all the way out to the mountains. At the turn of the century, Lenox and Stockbridge were thriving summer resort communities, home to Vanderbilts, Sloanes, and other prominent families of the Gilded Age. At once a leader and a recorder of this glamorous society, Edith Wharton stands at the pinnacle of turn of the twentieth-century American literature and social history. The Mount was crucial to her success, and the story of her life there is filled with gatherings of literary figures and artists. Edith Wharton at Home presents Wharton’s life at The Mount in vivid detail with authoritative text by Richard Guy Wilson and archival images, as well as new color photography of the restoration of The Mount and its spectacular gardens. "The Mount was to give me country cares and joys, long happy rides and drives through the wooded lanes of that loveliest region, the companionship of dear friends, and the freedom from trivial obligations, which was necessary if I was to go on with my writing. The Mount was my first real home . . . its blessed influence still lives in me." —Edith Wharton, 1934