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6 de out. de 2010 · October 6, 2010. There's no sex in Edith Wharton's best known work. Her Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Age of Innocence chronicles a decades-long affair between a man and his wife's cousin ...
27 de abr. de 2021 · Although “April Showers” clearly comments on what it means—or what it does not have to mean—to be a writer, Wharton uses the story to stress the importance of familial relationships. In her selfimposed isolation, Theodora bears most of the worry and all of the guilt associated with writing her novel and, consequently, ignores her family ...
Edith Wharton, an American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her ironic and polished prose about the aristocratic New York society into which she was born. Her protagonists are most often tragic heroes or heroines portrayed as intelligent and emotional people who want more out of life. Wharton's protagonists challenge social taboos ...
Life. By Edith Wharton. Life, like a marble block, is given to all, A blank, inchoate mass of years and days, Whence one with ardent chisel swift essays. Some shape of strength or symmetry to call; One shatters it in bits to mend a wall; One in a craftier hand the chisel lays,
18 de set. de 2014 · The Fullness Of Life by Edith Wharton, 1893 The magic trick: Using perfectly chosen details in order to breathe life into a clichéd plot It is jarring at first to find an Edith Wharton story set in an imaginary afterworld. Her writing – ghosts and spirits aside – usually is so tied to very realistic societal….
EDITH WHARTON(1862 - 1937) (Full name Edith Newbold Jones Wharton) American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and autobiographer. Wharton is best known as a novelist of manners whose fiction detailed the cruel excesses of aristocratic society in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The train was rushing through a region of bare hillocks huddled against a lifeless sky. It looked like the first day of creation. The air of the car was close, and she pushed up her window to let in the keen wind. Then she looked at her watch: it was seven o’clock, and soon the people about her would be stirring.
