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A party supported by pals who made it through rush hour rain was appropriate for an anthology celebrating female friendshipNervous as I am of organising parties, I could hardly have launched a book about friendship without throwing one. And so it was that last Tuesday night, I found myself in... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-14 15:00:31 UTC ]
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Two writers whose work explores the aggregate nature of personal and collective fate discuss authors who were master interrogators of social dualism in their own times. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) What are the best short stories about painters, artists, and the world of art? From Gothic pioneers like Edgar Allan Poe to realist writers like Edith Wharton, masters of the short story have often touched upon the subject of art and painting, using... Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-05-10 14:00:48 UTC ]
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Like William Faulkner or Thomas Hardy, and not unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Edith Wharton loved some milieus too much for just one story. In its setting and characters, The Old Maid is quintessential Wharton, the New York-born author who wrote fifteen novels and novellas and became the... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-05-12 08:51:03 UTC ]
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This week we’re celebrating the 160th birthday of Edith Wharton—novelist, short story writer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer prize. But as it turns out, the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction wasn’t initially meant to go to Wharton—the jury wanted to give the honor to Sinclair Lewis, but they... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2022-01-25 17:30:38 UTC ]
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This tale of Gilded Age New York City became, in 1921, the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Continue reading at 'The New York Times'
[ The New York Times | 2021-10-21 14:55:14 UTC ]
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Yang’s debut novel owes a debt to Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth,” though Ivy Lin is no Lily Bart. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-05 16:42:29 UTC ]
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Full disclosure: I may not be the right person to answer the question posed in this headline. After all, I wrote my first novel almost entirely from bed. In fact, I am writing this essay from bed now. Like Edith Wharton, Colette, and Proust, I am more creative when reclined, and when... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-28 10:44:03 UTC ]
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IN 1984, George Ramsden, a 30-year-old British bookseller who had never read anything by Edith Wharton, bought her personal library for $80,000. He kept the books in a room above his bookshop where he would invite select visitors to view them by asking if they wanted to come up and see “Edith.”... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-06-08 12:30:25 UTC ]
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FOR THE FIRST two-plus decades of its existence (it was founded in 1979), the Library of America — a small press devoted to “publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions” — hewed closely to the established canon: Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Thoreau, Henry James, Edith... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-13 13:30:11 UTC ]
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