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Francophile Edith Wharton is buried in Versailles. One of the few foreign front-line correspondents in France during World War I, she penned this collection of articles to orient American soldiers headed to the country. Articles such as "First Impressions," "Intellectual Honesty," "Taste," "Continuity," and "The New Frenchwoman" reveal the author's love of her adopted land.
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Este ensayo conforma el último capítulo de la obra Escribir ficción que la prolífica escritora estadounidense Edith Wharton publicó en entregas en 1925 y en la que ofrece comentarios generales sobre las raíces de la ficción moderna, las múltiples formas en las que se puede escribir una obra de ficción y el desarrollo de la forma y el estilo. Contemporánea del autor de En busca del tiempo perdido, quedó impresionada por la forma en que Proust...
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No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is foremost.
A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of "mechanical" readers is having a disastrous impact on the world of letters. A subtly devastating work of social criticism, “The Vice of Reading” is also a celebration of the voracious...
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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...
5) In Morocco
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The great American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) here gives us her colorful and textured travel memoir "In Morroco" (1920). Still a deeply energized work, Wharton imbues the reader with a sense of wonder that served as the impetus for her travels into this exotic Northern African land. Edith Wharton made her name as a novelist closely associated with the prolific Henry James. Their personal and literary kinship may be seen in much of her long...
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A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith's brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of transport has given her. With a keen eye for architecture and art,...
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