Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
Auteur de Le Temps de l'innocence
A propos de l'auteur
Edith Wharton was a woman of extreme contrasts; brought up to be a leisured aristocrat, she was also dedicated to her career as a writer. She wrote novels of manners about the old New York society from which she came, but her attitude was consistently critical. Her irony and her satiric touches, as afficher plus well as her insight into human character, continue to appeal to readers today. As a child, Wharton found refuge from the demands of her mother's social world in her father's library and in making up stories. Her marriage at age 23 to Edward ("Teddy") Wharton seemed to confirm her place in the conventional role of wealthy society woman, but she became increasingly dissatisfied with the "mundanities" of her marriage and turned to writing, which drew her into an intellectual community and strengthened her sense of self. After publishing two collections of short stories, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), she wrote her first novel, The Valley of Decision (1902), a long, historical romance set in eighteenth-century Italy. Her next work, the immensely popular The House of Mirth (1905), was a scathing criticism of her own "frivolous" New York society and its capacity to destroy her heroine, the beautiful Lily Bart. As Wharton became more established as a successful writer, Teddy's mental health declined and their marriage deteriorated. In 1907 she left America altogether and settled in Paris, where she wrote some of her most memorable stories of harsh New England rural life---Ethan Frome (1911) and Summer (1917)---as well as The Reef (1912), which is set in France. All describe characters forced to make moral choices in which the rights of individuals are pitted against their responsibilities to others. She also completed her most biting satire, The Custom of the Country (1913), the story of Undine Spragg's climb, marriage by marriage, from a midwestern town to New York to a French chateau. During World War I, Wharton dedicated herself to the war effort and was honored by the French government for her work with Belgian refugees. After the war, the world Wharton had known was gone. Even her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence (1920), a story set in old New York, could not recapture the former time. Although the new age welcomed her---Wharton was both a critical and popular success, honored by Yale University and elected to The National Institute of Arts and Letters---her later novels show her struggling to come to terms with a new era. In The Writing of Fiction (1925), Wharton acknowledged her debt to her friend Henry James, whose writings share with hers the descriptions of fine distinctions within a social class and the individual's burdens of making proper moral decisions. R.W.B. Lewis's biography of Wharton, published in 1975, along with a wealth of new biographical material, inspired an extensive reevaluation of Wharton. Feminist readings and reactions to them have focused renewed attention on her as a woman and as an artist. Although many of her books have recently been reprinted, there is still no complete collected edition of her work. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Edith Wharton
Novels: The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence (1986) 526 exemplaires, 8 critiques
Novellas and Other Writings : Madame De Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A… (1990) 380 exemplaires, 1 critique
The House of Mirth; The Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence (1994) 193 exemplaires, 1 critique
Four Novels of the 1920s: The Glimpses of the Moon / A Son at the Front / Twilight Sleep / The Children (2015) 90 exemplaires
Gramercy Modern Classics: Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners (1996) 39 exemplaires, 1 critique
Three Novels of New York (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of… 11 exemplaires
The Classic Ghost Stories Collection: Chilling Tales from Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, Edith Wharton, E. F. Benson,… (2020) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
Selected Shorts: Edith Wharton (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) 8 exemplaires
Works of Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, Sanctuary, The Custom of the Country,… (2009) 7 exemplaires
Tre storie del soprannaturale 6 exemplaires
Classic American Literature: 21 books by Edith Wharton in a single file, with active table of contents 5 exemplaires
The Complete Works of Edith Wharton. Illustrated: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and others 4 exemplaires
Quartet: Four Stories 4 exemplaires
La campanilla de la doncella y otros relatos 4 exemplaires
Triangoli imperfetti 3 exemplaires
La splendeur des âmes : Chez les heureux du monde ; Les Beaux Mariages ; Eté ; Le temps de… (2012) 3 exemplaires
All Souls [short story] 3 exemplaires
The Age of Innocence; Summer 3 exemplaires
Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence & Two Other Complete Works of Love, Morals, and Manners 2 exemplaires
L'edat de la inocència. 2 exemplaires
The age of innocence 2 exemplaires
The Early Short Fiction: Kerfol, Mrs. Manstey's View, the Bolted Door, the Dilettante, the House of the Dead Hand (2006) 2 exemplaires
Der Unfall 2 exemplaires
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classic) 2nd (second) Edition by Wharton, Edith published by Bantam… 2 exemplaires
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic Noir) 2 exemplaires
Miss Mary Pask [Short Story] 2 exemplaires
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2013) 2 exemplaires
Opowieści małżeńskie 2 exemplaires
SUFLETUL OMULUI 2 exemplaires
WHARTON: NOVELS 1 exemplaire
Confessions Of A Novelist 1 exemplaire
Wharton Short Stories 1 exemplaire
L'incidente 1 exemplaire
The War on All Fronts: Fighting France, Volume III 1 exemplaire
Relato em Marrocos 1 exemplaire
Sappho, literal translation with memoir 1 exemplaire
The Edith Wharton BBC Radio Drama Collection 1 exemplaire
Wharton Novels 1 exemplaire
Pienezza di vita 1 exemplaire
“The Portrait” 1 exemplaire
The Glimpses of the Moon Annotated 1 exemplaire
GOTHIC TALES: with an introduction by Edith Wharton 1 exemplaire
Lettere a Morton Fullerton. 1907-1931 1 exemplaire
36 Ghost Stories: Anthology 1 exemplaire
The Collected Short Stories, Volume II 1 exemplaire
Chroniques de New York: Romans, nouvelles 1 exemplaire
La maison de liesse 1 exemplaire
Il ritorno a casa 1 exemplaire
Edith Wharton: Vol 1. Collected Stories:1891-1910 (Library of America) by Edith Wharton (2014-10-16) 1 exemplaire
Ethan frome and stories 1 exemplaire
the mother 1 exemplaire
The Age of Innocence Collection: Old New York (False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, New Year's Day), The Age of… 1 exemplaire
14 Great Novels 1 exemplaire
NEW YORK-UL DE ALTADATA 1 exemplaire
L'eta' dell'innocenza - collana Rba - Fabbri -2004 1 exemplaire
OBSTACOLE 1 exemplaire
Świat zabawy 1 exemplaire
Charm Incorporated (in Stories Volume One) 1 exemplaire
Sussurros de Verão 1 exemplaire
Edith Wharton bio/works1862=1937 1 exemplaire
DIEU D'AMOUR 1 exemplaire
A Bottle of Perrier 1 exemplaire
El diagnóstico 1 exemplaire
Wharton Edith 1 exemplaire
The Works of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Touchstone, The Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, The House of Mirth… (2012) 1 exemplaire
Cuentos 1 exemplaire
Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton 1 exemplaire
A motor-flight through France Volume 2 1 exemplaire
Edith Wharton: 14 Novels & 12 Audiobooks 1 exemplaire
Walk in dread : twelve classic eerie tales. 1 exemplaire
The Looking Glass [Short Story] 1 exemplaire
Viaggio in Francia 1 exemplaire
WHARTON: COLLECTER SOTIES 1891-1910 1 exemplaire
ETHAN FROME A Perfection Micro-Classic, #MC58 1 exemplaire
Edith Wharton's New York City: A Backward Glance 1 exemplaire
Edith Wharton: The Complete Supernatural Stories 1 exemplaire
An Old New York Collection: Four Novels by Edith Wharton: The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Custom of the… (2020) 1 exemplaire
The Valley of Decision, Vol. II 1 exemplaire
Gli infelicissimi 1 exemplaire
Cuentos completos de Edith Wharton 1 exemplaire
Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volumes 1 to 7 (100 authors & 200 stories) 1 exemplaire
Wharton, Edith Archive 1 exemplaire
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contributeur — 442 exemplaires, 1 critique
Women & Fiction: Short Stories By and About Women (1975) — Contributeur — 367 exemplaires, 7 critiques
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributeur — 264 exemplaires, 3 critiques
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It (1918) — Contributeur — 199 exemplaires, 1 critique
Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siècle (1993) — Contributeur — 186 exemplaires, 2 critiques
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 161 exemplaires, 5 critiques
Vampires, Wine and Roses: Chilling Tales of Immortal Pleasure (1997) — Contributeur — 157 exemplaires, 2 critiques
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributeur — 150 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Contributeur — 149 exemplaires, 4 critiques
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributeur — 134 exemplaires, 1 critique
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah OrneJewett, Edith Wharton… (1990) — Contributeur — 126 exemplaires, 1 critique
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 122 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contributeur — 118 exemplaires, 1 critique
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 100 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 (1991) — Contributeur — 98 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contributeur — 94 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributeur — 84 exemplaires
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Contributeur — 78 exemplaires, 3 critiques
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Raven and the Monkey's Paw: Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library (1998) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 65 exemplaires
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1993) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century (2014) — Contributeur — 53 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Scribbling Women: Short Stories by 19th-Century American Women (1997) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
There is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man: More Strange Fiction and Hallucinatory Tales (2020) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contributeur — 41 exemplaires
Anthology of Fear 20 Haunting Stories for Winter Nights (1988) — Contributeur — 37 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires, 5 critiques
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas (2017) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires, 1 critique
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires, 1 critique
Three Classics by American Women: The Awakening; Ethan Frome; O Pioneers! (1990) — quelques éditions — 25 exemplaires, 1 critique
Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (Perennial library ; P 502) (1980) — Contributeur — 25 exemplaires
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Femmes de Siècle: Stories from the 90s - Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries (1992) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Haunted Women: The Best Supernatural Tales by American Women Writers (1985) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants (1947) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 9 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Pulitzer Prize Winning Works Collection: One of Ours, His Family, Miss Lulu Bett, Cornhuskers, Anna Christie, Alice… (2013) 4 exemplaires
A Reader for Writers — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Travel & Adventure: The Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories (2012) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Contemporary Short Stories: Representative Selections, Volume 1 (1953) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Contos Dramáticos — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel (1997) — Original novel — 1 exemplaire
Prize stories from Collier's, 5 volumes — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Wharton, Edith
- Nom légal
- Jones, Edith Newbold (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1862-01-24
- Date de décès
- 1937-08-11
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France
- Cause du décès
- stroke
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Paris, France
Hyères, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Val-d'Oise, France - Études
- at home
- Professions
- novelist
short story writer
travel writer
landscape architect
designer - Relations
- Clark, Colin (Filleul)
Farrand, Beatrix (Nièce)
Fullerton, William Morton (Amant)
Gide, André (Ami)
Cocteau, Jean (Ami) - Prix et distinctions
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (1916)
nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1927, 1928, 1930)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature | 1926)
Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1921)
National Women's Hall of Fame (1996) - Courte biographie
- Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to a wealthy New York family. She spent her early childhood in Europe, where she developed a gift for languages and a deep appreciation for art, architecture and literature.
She was educated by governesses and by her own reading, and began writing at any early age. Verses, her first volume of poems, was published privately when she was 16. In 1885, she married Edward "Teddy" Wharton, 12 years her senior. In 1897, with Ogden Codman, Jr., an architect friend, she published her first major book, The Decoration of Houses (1897). A few years later, she bought 113-acres in Lenox, Massachusetts, then designed and built The Mount, a country home to meet her needs as a designer, gardener, hostess, and writer. During the next 10 years at The Mount, she wrote some of her greatest works, including The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911). After a divorce from Teddy Wharton in 1913, she moved permanently to France. During World War I, she did social reform and humanitarian work, including establishing schools for refugee children, for which she received the Legion of Honor.
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Discussions
Folio Archives 267: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 1990 à Folio Society Devotees (Avril 2022)
Found: Wharton-esque Americans in Italy à Name that Book (Avril 2022)
December 2021: Edith Wharton à Monthly Author Reads (Janvier 2022)
Group Read, June 2021: The Glimpses of the Moon à 1001 Books to read before you die (Juillet 2021)
August: Reading Edith Wharton à Monthly Author Reads (Juin 2018)
March Read: Edith Wharton à Virago Modern Classics (Mai 2017)
1913: Wharton - The Custom of the Country à Literary Centennials (Février 2014)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 25-34 à 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Novembre 2011)
***Group Read: The Age of Innocence à The Highly-Rated Book Group (Octobre 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 14-24 à 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Octobre 2011)
The Age of Innocence: Chapters 1-13 à 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Octobre 2011)
The AGE OF INNOCENCE Group Read: Main Thread à 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Octobre 2011)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 326
- Aussi par
- 185
- Membres
- 57,026
- Popularité
- #258
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1,302
- ISBN
- 3,498
- Langues
- 31
- Favoris
- 365
Le sujet est facile : se moquer des femmes de la haute bourgeoisie provinciale qui se piquent de culture quand elles ne font que suivre les modes éditoriales, dans le respect des bonnes mœurs et de la vacuité de leurs conversations culturelles bien sûr. Mais Edith Wharton s’empare du sujet avec une maîtrise consommée de l’art de la satire. On se moque avec elle, on savoure les méchancetés gratuites, puis…
Sans trop en dire car ce serait dommage, ce livre interroge aussi le lecteur, qui bien sûr se pense du bon côté, pas du tout comme ces femmes engoncées dans leur ignorance et leur paraître, sur son propre rapport à la culture et à l’ignorance. Et à la fin, on se demande un peu si ce n’est pas l’arroseur qui est arrosé.
Une lecture à deux niveaux, donc. Très rapide, mais délicieuse. Une lecture pas du tout prévue : je regardais ce que le projet Gutenberg avait comme œuvres de cette autrice et je suis tombée sur ce court titre (en anglais pour le coup) par hasard. Intriguée par le titre, j’ai essayé et je ne suis pas déçue du voyage ! Du Wharton comme celui-là, j’en redemande !… (plus d'informations)