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The age of innocence, published in 1920 and currently available for audio download, garnered her the award. She won a pulitzer prize for fiction, and as the mount reports, an honorary doctorate of letters from yale university, and a full membership in the american academy of arts and letters. Edith wharton presents you with the agonising choices facing the young, in particular, when passion and the wish for freedom tempts them to flaunt accepted conventions and morality. She was home schooled by private tutors and well groomed by governesses.
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It is one of the first novels of manners in american literature, and one of the first to openly explore how american victorian society offered little social mobility for women. A national historic landmark, today the mount is a cultural center that celebrates the intellectual, artistic and humanitarian legacy of edith wharton. Set in the wintry new england town named starkfield at the turn of the 20th century, this novel tells the story of ethan frome as he seeks to escape. Fighting france, from dunkerque to belfort edith wharton. Edith wharton s 1911 novel ethan frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Set in the wintry new england town named starkfield at the turn of the 20th century, this novel tells the story of ethan frome as he seeks to escape his sickly wife zeena for his young, beautiful cousin mattie. The genteel snobbery of the upper classes with its underlying cruelty and heartless judgments passed on those who cross the line is wonderfully depicted in the age of innocence. Edith wharton books biography and list of works author of. Set against a bleak new england background, the novel tells of frome, his ailing wife zeena and her companion mattie silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deeprooted domestic struggle. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone.
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