"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Edith Wharton's legacy and impact is still unfolding to this day. With The Buccaneers, new audiences may ...
The Mount is hosting an online Book Club series exploring the acclaimed works of Edith Wharton and related fiction via Zoom. The series opens with a discussion of Wharton’s "Old ...
The trouble with Summer...is that Mrs. Wharton rather forces her note. It is not that seduction as a scheme for literary bouleversement is a little out of date. There is no such thing as a catastrophe ...
It had been there all along, filed away in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: a story, taking up nine pages in all, about the anxious operations of Parisian society during World War I.
Edith Wharton’s novels rarely go more than a couple of years without a film or television adaptation. They are certainly never absent from high school and college curricula. Wharton was a taste-maker ...
Edith Wharton and Brooke Astor grew up more than a generation apart, and although they never met, their lives seem to touch. Both were grandes dames who hobnobbed with presidents (Wharton with Teddy ...
The publication of the letters of a major author is always a cause for excitement, for it allows us to peek behind a public literary facade and witness the inner workings of a finely tuned creative ...
The Ghent Playhouse will stage a reading from Edith Wharton’s 1934 short story “Roman Fever.” The opening line: “From the ...
A historic home in Tuxedo Park, New York, built for a Cuban-American heiress and visited by Mark Twain and Edith Wharton has ...
Silly me. My house is a short drive from The Mount, Edith Wharton’s handsome spread in Lenox, and I visit often. But only now have I realized that this long-dead Bard of the Berkshires (several of her ...
Test your knowledge of novels written during (or about) this memorable era of American history. By J. D. Biersdorfer Craving More of ‘The Gilded Age’? Read These Books Next. If you’re reeling after ...
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