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Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
A Backward Glance, by Edith Wharton- Published on: 2015-06-04
- Released on: 2015-06-04
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About the Author Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, known for such classics as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. A member of the New York elite, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms. Wharton died in 1937, leaving behind a rich literary legacy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. For admirers, obviously. By But Seriously Both as a reader and as a student of design and decoration, I turned to this book to discover Wharton on her own terms. The early years tend to the quaint reminiscences and family history that don't much surprise. Her story becomes more compelling as the 19th century ends and the mature woman emerges.There's plenty to entertain, though. I found her stories of early "motoring" in the Berkshires of Massachusetts illuminating and fun - for instance her observation that the automobile opened up an entirely new range (both in terms of miles traveled and sights seen) of day trip, and the excitement that provided.I was interested to read how the ten years creating and living at The Mount, her famous house near Lenox MA received rather short, if affectionate, mention in the text. I've always taken her book with Ogden Codman, The Decoration of Houses, to be a defining work not just for decorators and the history of American interior design, but for her as well. Now I sense better how much of that book is Codman put into her words. Still, later in the book she frequently recalls those days, especially the motoring, and the trips they took through the country and into the mountains provide much of the rich background in novels like Summer and Ethan Frome - works she herself rates highly.It may be that the European setting of much of the 20th century years makes the book take off at that point, but it's also the work she does in that era, and, necessarily, the people that fame brings into her life. Her friendship with Henry James is paramount among these, and the poignancy with which she writes about his last years (during WWI) and her regretted neglect of him at the end (she was in Paris, while he was in England) is moving. When, out of loyalty to his adopted England and before America joined the war, James renounces his American citizenship and officially becomes an Englishman, she thought it a mistake. "Not knowing what to say I refrained from writing to him; and I regret it now, for I think the act comforted him, and it deeply touched his old friends in England."There is so much of value about writing and regret and achievement in the 2nd half of the book. Wharton provides insights into character development and the role of readers and critics in the writer's life. She's frank about the sense that she and her contemporaries were attacked when new for being radical, and when established for being quaint. Her own development as a writer is illumined by the changes the world was undergoing at the time - from travel in carriages to the independence of automobiles and expanded, faster rail service; from the Wright brothers experiments to warplanes and, though not mentioned, the passenger air travel available by the time she wrote this memoir The sense of the rapid change in the lives of women remains rather unspoken but still one of the elements affecting her own existence. (Of course, she also clearly believed her own generation in New York to be a turning point from the old-fashioned ways of a slower, duller city that preceded.)So, for Wharton fans, for WWI aficionados, and for the rest of you who find some attraction here - go for it. The writing is obviously expert, the observations sound or, when not, provocative.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Not entirely satisfying memoir, but it does shed some light on Wharton and her world By CreativeWriter Other reviews have mentioned that Wharton wrote this memoir without passion, and I have to agree. She must have felt that she could not go into detail about her ex husband's troubling disability, nor does she detail her subsequent love affair. But I suppose she was a creature of her time, and I forgive her for that. As a big fan of her writing, I had hoped to learn more of what motivated her and her opinions of her world. Very little, if any, of this kind of heartfelt confession is in this book. But if you are looking for any kind of detail about her homes or writer friends, it is here.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Not my favorite book by E Wharton By vermont reader Not my favorite book by E Wharton, but interesting in that you get to see how she became a writer.
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