Edith Wharton

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An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she contracts at the card table, her reduced circumstances and the constant gossip she attracts from malevolent tongues through her heedless behaviour and faux pas make her prospects look bleak. As suitor after suitor appears and fades away, and she is drawn further and further down a spiral of loneliness and unhappiness, she realizes that she is just one step away from losing everything she has. Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton’s enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions.

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. a] 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. The House of Mirth was Wharton's second published novel and was preceded by two novellas, The Touchstone (1900), Sanctuary (1903), and one full-length novel, The Valley of Decision (1902). Her subsequent important novels are Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913), and The Age of Innocence (1920) for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. These works influenced a host of American authors for two generations. They include F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Sinclair Lewis (Main Street), John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra), and Louis Auchincloss (The House of Five Talents).

"I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome." -- Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.

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. This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life-or mercilessly destroy it.

First published in 1924, "Old New York" is a collection of four short stories set in the New York of the 1840s, 50s, 60s, and 70s by American author Edith Wharton. These stories are often considered a companion to Wharton's celebrated novel "The Age of Innocence", as many of the same characters and settings appear. "Old New York" is Wharton at her best as she explores the social issues that were often at the center of her works: infidelity, the class system, the complex treatment of women, and universal human frailties, such as jealousy, dishonesty, and anger. "False Dawn" is the story of a difficult relationship between a controlling father and his son. "The Old Maid", one of Wharton's most popular works, is the tragic tale of a woman and her best friend who adopts her secret illegitimate child. "The Spark" is the story of a young man and his surprise encounter with a famous author that inspires his moral rehabilitation. The final tale, "New Year's Day", is a surprising story of a married woman suspected of adultery. "Old New York" is an insightful, bold, and richly detailed collection by one of America's most important authors. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Seltskonnadaam Lily Bart on aastaid olnud koorekihi kullake ja uusrikaste imetlusobjekt. Kolmekümnenda eluaasta lähenedes muutub tühja kukru, ent kalli maitsega naise jalgealune üha ebakindlamaks. Praktiliste oskusteta Lily peab kiiresti leidma viisi enda elatamiseks, et säilitada sotsiaalne staatus ning harjumuspäraselt luksuslik eluviis. Kauni ja nutika naise ainus pääsetee näib olevat jõukas abikaasa. Lily on aga liiga nõudlik ja põhimõttekindel, et iga härrasrahva poolt sobivaks tunnistatud mehe kosjad vastu võtta.1905. aastal ilmunud romaanis "Rõõmukoda" kritiseerib Edith Wharton Ameerika toonase eliidi silmakirjalikkust ja rahahimu. Peategelanna kaudu taunib autor kõrgseltskonna naiste kasvatamist üksnes iluasjadeks, kes argielu katsumustega silmitsi seistes hätta jäävad. Autorist:Edith Wharton (1862-1937) tundis jõuka New Yorgi perekonna ainsa võsukesena harva millestki puudust. Intelligentne neiu veetis oma kujunemisaastad peamiselt Euroopas - Prantsusmaal, Saksamaal ja Itaalias - keeli õppides ning arendades oma ilumeelt kunsti, arhitektuuri ja kirjanduse parimate näidete varal. 1872. aastal New Yorki naasnud Wharton veetis meelsasti aega oma isa hästi varustatud raamatukogus ja omandas armastatud guvernandi Anna Bahlmanni juhendamisel põhjaliku hariduse. Tulevane kirjanik kasvas üles ajastul, mil kõlbelistel kõrgklassi naistel võis olla üksainus elueesmärk: saada sündsalt mehele. Wharton lõi selle hädise ideaali pihuks ja põrmuks, avaldades juba 16aastaselt, küll privaatselt, oma esimese luulekogumiku. Laiemat tähelepanu pälvis autor 1897. aastal ilmunud aimeraamatuga disainist ja arhitektuurist. Tunnustatud romaanikirjaniku tiitli pälvis ta aga 20. sajandi esimestel kümnenditel meistriteoste "Rõõmukoda", "Ethan Frome" ja "Süütuse aeg" ilmudes. Kokku kirjutas Ameerika üheks olulisimaks kirjanikuks peetav Wharton üle 40 raamatu ja oli esimene naine, kes pälvis Pulitzeri kirjanduspreemia.

Året är 1914, och första världskriget har brutit ut i Europa. I Paris inväntar den amerikanske målaren John Campton ankomsten av sin son George. George föddes i Frankrike och har därför blivit inkallad till den franska armén. Hans föräldrar försöker desperat hålla honom från fronten genom att använda sig av sin sociala status, samtidig som hans far strider med de moraliska konsekvenserna av deras handlingar. Men trots deras försök väljer George att ansluta sig till armén och strida för sitt födelseland. "Deras son" är en gripande och tragisk krigsskildring som fokuserar på föräldrars sörjande under kriget, och hur de tvingas gå vidare i livet på bekostnad av sina barn. Det är en berättelse om en faders kärlek till sin son, om lojalitet till sitt land, och om klassprivilegium. -