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  • Fast and Loose

    Serier Bog 1 - Edith Wharton
    In 1877, at the age of 15, Edith Wharton secretly wrote a 30,000 word novellette "Fast and Loose". Despite not publishing this first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir. Edith Wharton ... Læs mere

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  • The Buccaneers

    Serier Bog 21 - Edith Wharton
    The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The novel is set in the 1870s, around the time Edith Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has also been invited. The book was published in 1938 in New York. Edith Wharton (1862 ... Læs mere

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  • The Touchstone

    Serier Bog 2 - Edith Wharton
    The Touchstone is a novella, written by Edith Wharton in 1900; it was the first of her many stories describing life in old New York. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first ... Læs mere

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  • The Valley of Decision

    Serier Bog 3 - Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton's debut novel, The Valley of Decision, is one of her most significant and exceptional novels. Set in the late 18th century north of Italy, it outlines the different decisions made by Odo Valsecca, a young liberal man, who inherits a dukedom during the years of the French Revolution. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew ... Læs mere

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  • The Gods Arrive

    Serier Bog 20 - Edith Wharton
    The Gods Arrive continues the story of Vance Weston and Halo Spear Tarrant of Hudson River Bracketed. At the end of Hudson River Bracketed, Vance's wife Laura Lou has died and Halo, although married to the aristocratic Lewis Tarrant, acknowledges her feelings for Vance. In The Gods Arrive, Tarrant refuses to give Halo a divorce. Halo, however, has just inherited from her relative, Elinor Lorburn, ... Læs mere

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  • Hudson River Bracketed

    Serier Bog 19 - Edith Wharton
    Hudson River Bracketed tells a fascinating tale set in the 1920s. It features two intelligent, sensitive protagonists, Vance Weston and Halo Spear, both of whom love literature and, despite unhappy marriages to others, eventually come together. This is no sentimental novel, however, with the lovers overcoming all odds to marry and have children. (Abby H. P. Werlock, Edith Wharton Society) Edith ... Læs mere

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  • The Children

    Serier Bog 18 - Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton's hapless protagonist Martin Boyne laments that he never meets an interesting person while travelling. As he begins his voyage across the Atlantic, however, he meets not one interesting person, but seven: seven children travelling-escaping rather-under the protection of the eldest sister, Judith Wheater, and their sturdy nanny, Miss Horatia Scope ("Scopy"). They are escaping their ... Læs mere

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  • Twilight Sleep

    Serier Bog 17 - Edith Wharton
    Twilight Sleep portrays the self-absorption of the upper class Pauline Manford and her extended family in 1920's New York. Pauline fills every moment of her day with "mental uplift [. . .] Psycho-analysis [. . .] Silent Meditation [. . .] and Facial massage." She delivers a speech to the "Birth Control League" one week and the "National Mothers' Day Association" the next, seeing no hypocrisy in ... Læs mere

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  • The Mother’s Recompense

    Serier Bog 17 - Edith Wharton
    Lous Bromfield said that The Mother’s Recompense had been handled with a technical skill approached by only one other book we have read this year, The Great Gatsby (1925). "In 1925, at age sixty-three, Wharton published a singularly acrobatic variant of her mother-daughter theme, one in which the roles are reversed, so that the daughter becomes the nurturer of the mother. In The Mother's ... Læs mere

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  • Old New York: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year’s Day

    Serier Bog 15 - Edith Wharton
    Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith WhartonFalse Dawn (Parts One and Two) (The Forties),The Old Maid (Parts One and Two) (The Fifties),The Spark (The Sixties), andNew Year's Day (The Seventies),revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain fictional characters appear ... Læs mere

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  • Summer

    Serier Bog 10 - Edith Wharton
    Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather ... Læs mere

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  • The Custom of the Country

    Serier Bog 9 - Edith Wharton
    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the ... Læs mere

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