This expanded new edition of Edith Clarke's groundbreaking work, My Mother Who Fathered Me includes material taken from her personal collection in the Jamaican archives, published reviews of the earlier edition and a foreword by Rex Nettleford.
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This special ebook edition includes four of Edith Wharton's best-known novels: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Madame de Treymes.
This unique collection is a rich representation of the works of one of the greatest 20th-century American writers, best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born.
Nella New York di metà Ottocento, Charlotte è una madre nubile che rinuncia con dolore alla potestà della figlia Clementina, “Tina”, sperando così di assicurarle un futuro migliore. Dopo aver vissuto buona parte della sua infanzia in orfanotrofio, Tina viene accolta dalla ricca cugina della mamma, la vedova Delia Ralston, e le tre iniziano una convivenza dai delicati equilibri. L’angoscia di “zia” Charlotte e i dissidi interiori dell’altera Delia esploderanno in un crescendo narrativo con l’evolversi delle vicende sentimentali di Tina. In questo breve romanzo troviamo una Edith Wharton al meglio delle sue abilità letterarie. Lo sguardo ironico ma ricco di compassione per l’essere umano, i personaggi che provano a sgretolare le regole imposte dalla società, il coraggio di affrontare temi scabrosi per l’epoca e l’acuta capacità descrittiva della società del suo tempo si dispiegano qui in un romanzo densissimo. Il libro ebbe una vasta eco e ispirò nel 1935 lo spettacolo teatrale omonimo (adattamento di Zoë Akins, con cui vinse il Pulitzer per la drammaturgia) e nel 1939 un fortunato quanto osteggiato film con Bette Davis e Miriam Hopkins.
Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. In addition to writing several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories. This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents and the following works: Afterward, The Age of Innocence, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses, Autres Temps…, Bunner Sisters, The Choice, Coming Home, Crucial Instances, The Custom of the Country, The Descent of Man & Other Stories, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 2, Ethan Frome, Fighting France, The Fruit of the Tree, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Greater Inclination, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The House of Mirth, In Morocco, Kerfol, The Long Run, Madame de Treymes, The Reef, Sanctuary, Summer, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Touchstone, The Triumph of Night, The Valley of Decision, Xingu.
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