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"Edith Wharton's Journey" is a radio adaptation, for the NPR series Radio Tales, of the short story "A Journey" from Edith Wharton's collection The Greater Inclination. The American singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega paid homage to Edith Wharton in her song "Edith Wharton's Figurines" on her 2007 studio album Beauty & Crime .
"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
Description: American writer, novelist, poet, translator, prose writer and art historian Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
With The Buccaneers, new audiences may be introduced into the world of Edith Wharton. Using The Mount , the museum at Edith Wharton's home, as a reference, here's how to read to all of Wharton's ...
Edith Wharton said the title of the novel came from a play by English playwrights John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, titled The Custom of the Country, in which the term referred to the droit du seigneur, the claim of a ruler to have sex with a subordinate female before her husband.
Edith Wharton, the writer of The Muse's Tragedy. Edith Wharton (Newbold Jones) was born on the 24 January 1862 in New York. She was the third child of Georges Frederic and Lucretia Jones (a rich family - her mother was an aristocrat). During her childhood, Edith was a brilliant girl and as a teenager she began to write a short story called ...
Cynthia Griffin Wolff (née Griffin; August 20, 1936 – July 25, 2024) was an American literary historian and editor known for her biographies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson. She was the Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .
The House of Mirth is a novel by American author Edith Wharton, published on 14 October 1905.It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society in the 1890s.