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“Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.”

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American contemporary novelist, known for his profound social insight and unique literary style. His works include 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom'. more

“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. ("Wants")”

Edith Wharton

Book:Short Shorts

Source: Short Shorts

“Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.”

Philosophy Wisdom Poetry Faith Quotes Literature Seeing Books Blind Poetry Quotes Poets Dejan Stojanovic Literature Quotes Eyesight The Sun Watches The Sun

Book:The Sun Watches the Sun

Source: The Sun Watches the Sun

“Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.”

Freedom Henry James Edith Wharton

Book:The Odd Woman and the City

Source: The Odd Woman and the City

“When she said to him once "It looks as if it was painted!" it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther, and that words had at last been found to utter his secret souls.”

Love Edith Wharton

Book:Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“Cât de mult se vor putea cunoaște unul pe altul, când datoria lui de om "cumsecade" era să nu-i destăinuie trecutul, iar a ei, ca fată de măritat, să nu aibă nici un fel de trecut de ascuns?”

Edith Wharton Varsta Inocentei

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“- ... e o fată delicioasă: n-am mai văzut o a doua ființă atât de deșteaptă și de draguță. Ești tare îndrăgostit de ea? Newland Archer râse roșind: - Cât poate fi un bărbat.”

Edith Wharton Varsta Inocentei

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“- E ora mea favorită... nu e și a dumitale?”

Edith Wharton Varsta Inocentei

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“...fusese totdeauna dispus să creadă că hazardul și împrejurările jucau un rol minor în soarta oamenilor, în comparație cu înclinația lor înnăscută de a-și făuri singuri soarta.”

Edith Wharton Varsta Inocentei The Age Of Innocence

Author:Edith Wharton

“Să emigreze! Parcă un gentleman ar putea să-și părăsească patria!”

Edith Wharton Varsta Inocentei The Age Of Innocence

Book:The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

“But Wharton hadn’t published any of her books while she lived in this house. At Land’s End, she had been unknown, an unhappy married woman. She had not yet become the real Edith Wharton. Not yet divorced. Not yet a novelist. Not yet a war correspondent in France. She wonders how terrifying it felt, not to know any of this about herself, to sit out on this big lawn, looking at the sea, feeling like she was at the very end of it all. She wonders what it was that made her realize there was somewhere else to go.”

Fiction Novel Edith Wharton

Book:The Wedding People

Source: The Wedding People

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