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"Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in Liberty magazine on November 10, 1934. [1] A revised and expanded version of the story was published in Wharton's 1936 short story collection The World Over.
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.
Readers of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911) can hardly fail to be moved by the suffering of the title character. Ethan is, quite literally, a physical and emotional wreck. His misery captivates the narrator. Indeed, the whole body of the novel represents the narrator’s effort to reconstruct the tragic circumstances of Ethan’s life.
Edith Wharton en 1889, à 27 ans (photo de E. F. Cooper). Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones le 24 janvier 1862 à New York ( États-Unis) et morte le 11 août 1937 à Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt ( Val-d'Oise, France ), est une romancière, nouvelliste, poétesse et essayiste américaine.
1 de nov. de 2019 · A larger life and more tolerant views: That’s the greatest promise the novel holds out to us, and it’s as necessary now as it was when Edith Wharton put it into words. A correction was made on ...
Edith Wharton Biography. Edith Wharton was born Edith Jones into an upper-class New York City family in 1862. Typical for members of her class at that time, Edith had a distant relationship with her parents. She received a marriage proposal at a young age, but the wedding was ultimately thwarted by her prospective in-laws’ perception of the ...
21 de ago. de 2012 · Roman Fever – critical comments. Daisy Miller. This story offers a satirical version of the theme treated by Henry James in his famous novella Daisy Miller. James’s heroine Daisy incautiously ventures out into the Colosseum at night, catches fever, and later dies. His story is one of unfulfilled promise and a life tragically foreshortened.
