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Series Book 17 - Edith Wharton
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The Glimpses of the Moon

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Series Book 13 - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton composed The Glimpses of the Moon after the end of World War I. She describes the postwar era in A Backward Glance, her autobiography, as a time when she faced the growing sense of the waste and loss wrought by the war's]irreparable years. The emotional landscape was one of bereavement: Death and mourning darkened the houses of all my friends, and I mourned with them, and mingled my ... Read more

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The Mother’s Recompense

by Edith Wharton, Sam Vaseghi ...

Series Book 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 ... Read more

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Complete Stories

Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton, Sam Vaseghi ...

Series Book 22 - Edith Wharton
This volume contains the complete stories of Edith Wharton. 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 woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the ... Read more

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The Marne

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Series Book 11 - Edith Wharton
The Marne is named after the critical French battles along the Marne River during the First World War. Troy Belknap, is a wealthy American whose family is enjoying their annual summer visit to France when the Germans invade. Troy's tutor and close friend M. Grantier leaves for his hometown when news spreads of the German invasion. Troy's father, Mr. Belknap, secures space on a ship to the United ... Read more

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Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton, Sam Vaseghi ...

Series Book 4 - Edith Wharton
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Fast and Loose

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Series Book 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 ... Read more

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A Son at the Front

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Series Book 14 - Edith Wharton
Largely criticized or ignored by a war-weary public when it was originally published in 1922, A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant novel chronicling the effects of WWI on painter John Campton and his only child, George […] Wharton movingly portrays those left behind during war-not the wives and children but the devastated parents, who are forced to go on living at the cost of their ... Read more

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The Custom of the Country

by Edith Wharton, Sam Vaseghi ...

Series Book 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 ... Read more

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Summer

by Edith Wharton, Sam Vaseghi ...

Series Book 10 - Edith Wharton
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Series Book 5 - Edith Wharton
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Series Book 21 - Edith Wharton
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