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  2. Edith Wharton - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. The Muse's Tragedy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. A Guide to All of Edith Wharton's Novels and Novellas - AOL

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    The novellas in Old New York are set in—you guessed it!—old New York, and are "vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the class system, and the ...

  5. Cynthia Griffin Wolff - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. The Custom of the Country - Wikipedia

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    The Disillusion of Marriage: The Failing Quest for Happiness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Summer, and The Custom of the Country (Thesis). State University of New York at Buffalo. hdl:10477/78043. ProQuest 2057210930. Campbell, M. (n.d.). Meaning, origin and history of the name Undine.

  7. The Touchstone (novella) - Wikipedia

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    The Touchstone is a novella by American writer Edith Wharton.Written and published in 1900, it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York.. Stephen Glennard, the novella's protagonist, is suddenly impoverished and unable to marry the woman he loves.

  8. File:Kerfol - Wharton.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Edith Wharton (1862–1937 ... is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 ...

  9. Ethan Frome - Wikipedia

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    The story of Ethan Frome had initially begun as a French-language composition that Wharton had to write while studying the language in Paris, [2] but several years later she took the story up again and transformed it into the novel it now is, basing her sense of New England culture and place on her ten years of living at The Mount, her home in Lenox, Massachusetts.