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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 ...
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 ...
Edith Wharton: The Mount: 1902–1911 ... Twain's life in Hannibal inspired his writing of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. [49] Laura Ingalls Wilder:
The Valley of Decision. Originally published 1902. Wharton's debut novel, the Valley of Decision, follows Odo Valsecca, a young man in northern Italy in the late 1700s.As the Cambridge Companion ...
Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 1, 1917 - June 13, 2002) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, [1] the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton.
Summary. Edith Wharton ... Kerfol ( ) Author: Edith Wharton (1862–1937 ... and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years ...
The Touchstone is a novella by American writer Edith Wharton.Written 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.