The Stories Of Edith Wharton

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174364

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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

A New York Review Books Original Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s Introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447480525

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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt, regret, and unrequited desires. Through her elegant prose and sharp wit, Wharton delves into the darkest corners of the human psyche, exploring themes of forbidden passions, societal constraints, and the persistent power of the past. Each setting serves as the backdrop for chilling encounters with the spectral realm. The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton is a testament to Wharton's versatility as a writer. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she imbues her tales with atmospheric tension, challenging the reader to question what lies beyond our mortal existence.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003957540

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The Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

Written from the turn of the century to the 1930s, these short stories offer look at the glittering but restrictive society of New York and cosmopolitan Europe, as well as portraits of women in search of fulfillment.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486282350

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Short Stories by Edith Wharton Pdf

Presents a collection of short stories about love, marriage, and divorce, including "Souls belated," "The pelican," and "The other two."

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375724

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Ghosts by Edith Wharton Pdf

An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton’s most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton’s final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. In “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” the earliest tale included here, a servant’s dedication to her mistress continues from beyond the grave, and in “All Souls,” the last story Wharton wrote, an elderly woman treads the permeable line between life and the hereafter. In all her writing, Wharton’s great gift was to mercilessly illuminate the motives of men and women, and her ghost stories never stray far from the preoccupations of the living, using the supernatural to investigate such worldly matters as violence within marriage, the horrors of aging, the rot at the root of new fortunes, the darkness that stares back from the abyss of one’s own soul. These are stories to “send a cold shiver down one’s spine,” not to terrify, and as Wharton explains in her preface, her goal in writing them was to counter “the hard grind of modern speeding-up” by preserving that ineffable space of “silence and continuity,” which is not merely the prerogative of humanity but—“in the fun of the shudder”—its delight. Contents All Souls’ The Eyes Afterward The Lady’s Maid’s Bell Kerfol The Triumph of Night Miss Mary Pask Bewitched Mr. Jones Pomegranate Seed A Bottle of Perrier

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 087451715X

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Wharton's New England by Edith Wharton Pdf

Tales of betrayal, folly, and moral fervor acted out against a stark New England backdrop.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015021861557

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The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

In The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, has culled twenty-one of her best stories, here available in a single volume for the first time.

Author : Laura Rattray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349595570

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Edith Wharton and Genre by Laura Rattray Pdf

Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in genres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and an author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form. Her versatility across genres did not represent brief sidesteps, temporary diversions from what has long been read as her primary role as novelist. Each was pursued fully and whole-heartedly, speaking to Wharton’s very sense of herself as an artist and her connected vision of artistry and art. The stories of these other Edith Whartons, born through her extraordinary dexterity across a wide range of genres, and their impact on our understanding of her career, are the focus of this new study, revealing a bolder, more diverse, subversive and radical writer than has long been supposed.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486854106

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The Touchstone by Edith Wharton Pdf

Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn.

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 : 45,9 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 : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:470900798

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The Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton Pdf

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439125571

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Roman Fever and Other Stories by Edith Wharton Pdf

A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected here in Roman Fever and Other Stories. From her picture of erotic love and illegitimacy in the title story to her exploration of the aftermath of divorce detailed in "Souls Belated" and "The Last Asset," Wharton shows her usual skill "in dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social restrictions," as Cynthia Griffin Wolff writes in her introduction. Roman Fever and Other Stories is a surprisingly contemporary volume of stories by one of our most enduring writers.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496122143

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A Journey by Edith Wharton Pdf

A Journey is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.Wharton was born to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City. She had two brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to her father's family. She was also related to the Rensselaer family, the most prestigious of the old patroon families. She had a lifelong friendship with her Rhinelander niece, landscape architect Beatrix Farrand of Reef Point in Bar Harbor, Maine.In 1885, at 23, she married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older. From a well-established Philadelphia family, he was a sportsman and gentleman of the same social class and shared her love of travel. From the late 1880s until 1902, he suffered acute depression, and the couple ceased their extensive travel. At that time his depression manifested as a more serious disorder, after which they lived almost exclusively at The Mount, their estate designed by Edith Wharton. In 1908 her husband's mental state was determined to be incurable. She divorced him in 1913. Around the same time, Edith was overcome with the harsh criticisms leveled by the naturalist writers. Later in 1908 she began an affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist for The Times, in whom she found an intellectual partner.In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first published work, The Decoration of Houses of 1897, co-authored by Ogden Codman. Another is the generously illustrated Italian Villas and Their Gardens of 1904.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528786607

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Bewitched by Edith Wharton Pdf

“Bewitched” is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection “Here and Beyond”. The stories include ghost stories, character studies and social dramas set in Brittany, New England, and Morocco. Along with “The Young Gentleman”, “Bewitched” shows clear Gothic leanings, especially in its emphasis on architecture and the gradual revealing of secrets. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and designer. She is famous for using her intimate knowledge of aristocratic New York society to authentically portray life during the Gilded Age. She was the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Other notable works by this author include: “A Son at the Front” (1923), “The Mother's Recompense” (1925), and “Twilight Sleep” (1927). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547062233

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Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton Pdf

"Tales of Men and Ghosts" is a collection of stories on various topics first published in 1912. Despite the name, only two stories in the collection tell of the supernatural. Other topics vary from dealing with intellectual fashions of the day, like Darwinism or Nietzscheanism, to the manners of life in New York. The author puts her characters to moral and ironic tests, creating an engaging read for everyone.