The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
A New York Review Books Original
(Sprache: Englisch)
A New York Review Books Original
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops nieces mingle with...
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops nieces mingle with...
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A New York Review Books OriginalEdith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own.
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton s career. From her first published story, Mrs. Manstey s View, to one of her last and most celebrated, Roman Fever, this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged.
Illuminated by Roxana Robinson s Introduction, these stories showcase Wharton s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.
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TABLE OF CONTENTSMrs. Manstey's View
The Good May Come
The Portrait
A Cup of Cold Water
A Journey
The Rembrandt
The Other Two
The Quicksand
The Dilettante
The Reckoning
Expiation
The Pot-Boiler
His Father's Son
Full Circle
Autres Temps . . .
The Long Run
After Holbein
Diagnosis
Pomegranate Seed
Roman Fever
Autoren-Porträt von Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862 1937) published more than forty volumes of novels, short stories, verse, essays, travel books, and memoirs. She was born into a distinguished New York family and was educated privately in the United States and abroad. Among her best-known work is Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.Roxana Robinson is the author of the three novels Sweetwater, (2003) This Is My Daughter, (1998) and Summer Light (1988); the three short story collections A Perfect Stranger, (2005) Asking for Love, (1996) A Glimpse of Scarlet, (1991) and the biography Georgia O Keeffe: A Life, (1989). Four of these were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Robinson's fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper's and Vogue. She lives in New York City and WestchesterCounty, New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Edith Wharton
- 2007, 488 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Robinson, Roxana
- Verlag: New York Review Books
- ISBN-10: 1590172485
- ISBN-13: 9781590172483
Sprache:
Englisch
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