Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton choisit de placer son r cit dans un petit village rural de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, en plein hiver. Paysages splendides et merveilleusement d peints. Mais les conditions de vie sont rudes et cela n'est pas sans effet sur le caract re des gens: des gens simples, un peu rustres m me, durs la t che. On est loin du monde sophistiqu de la haute soci t dans lequel se meuvent habituellement ses personnages.

Chez les heureux du monde suit les p r grinations d'une jeune femme, Lili Bart, dans le milieu des nantis de New York au d but du xxe si cle. En qu te de mari, d'abord adul e, puis accus e par la rumeur, enfin rejet e, la jeune femme finit tragiquement, incapable de vivre hors de cette soci t et de ses artifices.

Dans ce drame, l'h ro ne multiplie les voyages, comme la romanci re Edith Wharton, mais elle n'a pas une vraie communication avec son amant aussi ind pendant qu'elle. Elle souffre de vivre dans une soci t qui bl me les couples non mari s...

Edith Wharton's insightful 1912 classic was a daring challenge to the social and sexual conventions of the time, and is still provocative today. When George Darrow, a young American diplomat in Paris, is slighted by the woman he intends to propose marriage to, he has a brief, seemingly inconsequential affair with a spirited young woman whom he has taken under his wing. Months later, Darrow and the widowed Anna Leath mend their relationship and make plans to wed. But before they can announce their plans, Darrow learns that the engagement of Anna's stepson threatens to have a profound effect on his ow The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations. In a letter to Bernard Berenson in November 1912, Wharton expressed regret regarding her novel, calling it a "poor miserable lifeless lump". She wrote, "Anyhow, remember it's not me, though I thought it was when I was writing it-& that next time I'm going to do something worthwhile "

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. "a compelling and haunting story." -The New York Times ..".after all, the tragedy unveiled to us is social rather than personal... "Ethan Frome" is to me above all else a judgment on that system which fails to redeem such villages as Mrs. Wharton's Starkfield." -Literary critic and author Edwin Bjorkman