Free Online Library-11She was educated privately by European governesses. During her early years, Wharton spent writers at her Paris apartment and her garden home in the south of France. Among her friends were Henry James, Walter Berry and Bernard Berenson, with whom she traveled in Germany in 1913. Berenson later told his wife, Mary, that when he had a dinner with Edith in a hotel, she "eyed a young man at a neighboring table and said: 'When I see such a type
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sunglasses book The House of Mirth (1905), a story of a beautiful but poor woman, Lily Bart, trying to survive in pitiless New York City. It was followed several other novels set in New York. The Custom of the Country (1913) was a story of a young 88), she often expressed her hurt feelings when he toyed with her affections - ''didn't you see how my heart broke with the thought that, if I had been younger prettier, everything might have been different.''The Whartons spent a good deal of time in Europe starting in 1906. after her divorce in 1913, she continued to live in France, where she spent the rest of her life. She became a literary hostess to young
oakley writers at her Paris apartment and her garden home in the south of France. Among her friends were Henry James, Walter Berry and Bernard Berenson, with whom she traveled in Germany in 1913. Berenson later told his wife, Mary, that when he had a dinner with Edith in a hotel, she "eyed a young man at a neighboring table and said: 'When I see such a type my first thought is how to put him into my next novel.'"During World War I Wharton wrote reports for American newspapers. She assisted in organizing the American Hostel wrote poems, essays, travel books, and her autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934). In her short stories Wharton wrote about women in turn-of-the-century America, their loveless marriages, social responsibilities, expensive tastes, and longing for freedom. In Autres Temps one of her female characters admits: "We're shut up in a little
rayban tight round of habit and association, just as we're shut up in this room. Remember, I thought I'd got out of it once; but what really happened was that the other people
about michael kors went out, and left me in the same little room. The only difference was that I was there alone. Oh, I've made it habitable now, I'm used to it; but I've lost any illusions I may have had as to an angel's opening the door."Wharton's last novel, The Buccaneers (1938), was left unfinished, but her literary executor had the novel published in 1938. Wharton died in St.-Brice-sous-Fort, France, on August 11, 1937. The Buccaneers, a story about Wharton's own New York City generation, was later completed by Marion Mainwaring. Wharton's work was regarded from her death into the 1970's as anti-modernist, but biographies and movies, such as Martin Scorsese's adaptation of her novel, The Age of Innocence (1993), arose new interest in her work.Tale of Ethan Frome and his cousin, Mattie, as seen through the eyes of a wandering preacher. Ethan and Mattie fall in love, inviting the scorn of Ethan's wife, Zeena, and the town.
