Edith Wharton è stata una talentuosa romanziera le cui opere offrono penetranti esplorazioni delle consuetudini sociali e delle relazioni umane. La sua prosa, spesso ambientata nei circoli più elevati della sua epoca, è caratterizzata da un'acuta osservazione e da uno stile elegante. Wharton approfondì temi del conflitto tra la realizzazione personale e le aspettative sociali, in particolare nel contesto di matrimoni infelici. La sua capacità di rappresentare la profondità psicologica e di commentare criticamente le convenzioni del suo tempo la rendono una voce letteraria significativa.
Ghosts, , è il nome originario di questa raccolta, dove i racconti sono caratterizzati dalla specifica sensibilità dell'autrice, una sensitiva che grazie alla costante razionalità riesce a rimanere sempre "al di qua della pagina". Fin da bambina inoltre, la Wharton è , e al lettore viene chiesto solo di provare, o meglio di condividere, la dovuta paura e di prestare la dovuta attenzione.
A bestseller when it was first published, The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and stepsisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary 46-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.
Parma, Guanda, 1995, 8vo (cm. 20 x 12) brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 122 (Prosa contemporanea) . Ex libris all'occhiello.
"The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories" by Edith Wharton features a collection of captivating short stories, including titles like "The Hermit and the Wild Woman," "The Last Asset," and "The Best Man." Wharton's storytelling delves into complex themes and rich characterizations throughout the collection.
Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and position she betrays her own heart and sows the seeds of the tragedy that finally overwhelms her. The House of Mirth is a lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of Wharton's generation. Herself born into Old New York Society, Wharton watched as an entirely new set of people living by new codes of conduct entered the metropolitan scene. In telling the story of Lily Bart, who must marry to survive, Wharton recasts the age-old themes of family, marriage, and money in ways that transform the traditional novel of manners into an arresting modern document of cultural anthropology.
Born into wealth and aristocracy, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a member as well as an observer of fashionable New York society. Aspirations to authorship consigned her to outsider status among the idle rich; nevertheless, she drew upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful novels and short stories about people from all walks of life. This well-rounded introduction to Wharton's works features the complete text of her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence, as well as her haunting novella, Ethan Frome. Several excerpts from her highly influential guide to interior design, The Decoration of Houses, offer samples of Wharton's nonfiction style. The collection also includes four short stories as well as several poems.