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Informationen zum Autor Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth , perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome , The Custom of the Country , Summer and The Age of Innocence . Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937. Klappentext Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on 24th January 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination , in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, The Valley of Decision, in 1902. Her most famous work, The House of Mirth , was published in 1905. She died in 1937. Zusammenfassung A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.

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Autoren Edith Wharton
Verlag Penguin Books Uk
 
Sprache Englisch
Produktform Taschenbuch
Erschienen 31.07.2019
 
EAN 9780241422243
ISBN 978-0-241-42224-3
Seiten 176
Abmessung 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
Serien Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Themen Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur

FICTION / Coming of Age, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1910 to c 1919, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, US Northeast: New England

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