I've fallen in love, readers!It took me about 12 hours from start to finish to read the last of Wharton's novels, left unfinished for decades and then completed in Wharton's style by scholar Marion Mainwaring. As I mentioned earlier, I've watched the PBS series three times now and there's somethi...
This will end up being a review of The House of Mirth, sort of.“Wasn’t she too beautiful, Lawrence? Don’t you like her best in that simple dress? It makes her look like the real Lily – the Lily I know.” p.142Let’s begin with rich, beautiful people. I am neither, and I come from a long line of ne...
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" for the first time, then write essay...
Se Jane Austen affermava di lavorare con un pennello su un piccolo pezzetto d’avorio, Edith Wharton, secondo me, avrebbe potuto benissimo affermare che lei lavorava, intagliava, lucidava, una gemma d’ambra. I libri scritti dall’autrice americana sono dei veri piccoli gioielli, molto spesso brilla...
"Fast and Loose" was Edith Wharton's first novel, started when she was 14 and finished at 15. While she meant to keep it private (it was written for the amusement of a close friend), its publication here with "The Buccaneers" - her final, unfinished novel - gives insight into the major preoccupa...
