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Chargement... Sanctuary (original 1903; édition 1903)par Edith Wharton (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreSanctuary par Edith Wharton (1903)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Kate Orme es una mujer joven cuya dicha conyugal se rompe cuando se enfrenta cara a cara con el oscuro secreto que esconde su prometido, Denis Peyton, un hombre de fortuna, pero con un pasado gobernado por las mentiras y por los engaños. Cuando ambos tienen un hijo y Denis muere, Kate se convence de que el espíritu de su marido permanece en su joven vástago, traspasándole en cierto modo sus vicios morales. Se consagrará desde entonces a luchar para que eso no ocurra. Edith Wharton's novella about moral choice and temptation spreads itself over two generations and two men's moral dilemmas. The woman at the center of this story is first a girl on the edge of marriage, who discovers a dark secret regarding the man she is to marry, and a mother, whose son must make a similar choice. In this world, where money is king, I dare say most people would never resist the temptations presented to these men. I read this at one sitting and thoroughly enjoyed the story and waiting, like Kate, to see which would be chosen, the easy way or the moral one. Kate marries a man she knows to be morally deficient in order to protect whatever unborn children he may have from his moral lapses. Fast forward and Kate is now widowed and living with the son she had with this man. The son Dick is an architect, and through various circumstances the moral choices Kate feared her husband's children might one day face are now imminent. This theme of moral choices and what makes a person "good" reminded me of the first Litsy Wharton read, The Touchstone (see >179 arubabookwoman:), only this time the issue is explored from the woman's point of view. Then it turned into a sort of nature v. nurture kind of thing. Wharton writes beautifully, and there are hints of the intricacies of her later novels in this short work. I'm glad to have read this. 3 stars 46. Sanctuary by Edith Wharton published: 1902 format: 52-page kindle ebook (typically ~ 100 pages) acquired: September 7 read: Sep 27 time reading: 2:46, 3.2 mpp rating: 4 locations: California?, New York City about the author: 1862-1937. Born Edith Newbold Jones on West 23rd Street, New York City. Spent most of her writing life in France. Wharton‘s 3rd work of fiction, a novella from 1902, consists of two connected parts around Kate Peyton, née Orme. First a naïve Kate discovers her fiancé has conned an inheritance, and she still marries him. In part 2 her son has a moral quandary. Kate is passionately well-meaning, morality driven and likable, but strained by circumstance, and ultimately humanly flawed. She has to discover for herself her charmed “life was honeycombed by a vast system of moral sewage.” And, she struggles herself to understand her relationship with her son, whose life she is maybe over-involved in. ("As she sat there in the radius of lamplight which, for so many evenings, had held Dick and herself in a charmed circle of tenderness, she saw that her love for her boy had come to be merely a kind of extended egotism.") She never does seem to realize how awkward is what she is doing. I think it's fair to say a lot is going here that she doesn't really understand. I enjoyed this and reading with a Wharton group on Litsy. It gave me a lot to think about. Our next book with be [House of Mirth]. 2021 https://www.librarything.com/topic/333774#7618914 aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: In novels like The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton demonstrated a remarkable talent for exposing the dark underbelly of American high society. In Sanctuary, the tale of doomed marriage propped up by the protagonist's altruism, Wharton further explores the question of whether it is our nature or our upbringing that determines one's character and moral fiber. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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