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Results for 'edith wharton'
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The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Boston and orphaned at an early age. Taken in by a couple from Richmond, Virginia, he spent a semester at the University of Virginia but could not afford to stay longer. After joining the Army and matriculating as a cadet, he started his literary career with the anonymous publication of Tamerlane and Other Poems, before working as a literary critic. His life was dotted with scandals, such as purposefully getting himself court-martialled to ensure dismissal from the Army, being discharged from his job at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond after being found drunk by his boss, and secretly marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia (listed twenty-one on the marriage certificate). His work took him to both New York City and Baltimore, where he died at the age of forty, two years after Virginia.
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Roman Fever
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.
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The Awakening
Katherine O'Flaherty (1850-1904), known by her married name Kate Chopin, was an American author of short stories and novels. In 1899, her second novel, The Awakening, was published to much outrage and harsh criticism based upon moral, rather than literary, standards.
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Bewitched
The Ghostly Tales of Edith WhartonA new edition exploring the works of one of the great ghost story writers, Edith Wharton, aiming to position her firmly amongst the household names published so far in the Gilded Nightmares series. Featuring some of Wharton's essential classics such as 'The Eyes' and 'Afterward' along with less-anthologised masterpieces of the short story form.
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Summer
Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.
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Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing
A Cornucopia of PharmacopoeiaBodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how these texts depict women's efforts to secure bodily autonomy in the face of restrictive legal, medical, and social systems.
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False Dawn
The 'Forties€ 34,50 -
The Mother's Recompense
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Twenty-Three Stories by Twenty and Three Authors
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Die Stadt, die sie schrieben
New York City ist die literarische Sehnsuchtsstadt schlechthin. War einst Manhattan das kulturelle Zentrum der Welt, hat heute vor allem Brooklyn diese Rolle inne. Jedes Jahr erscheinen Dutzende Romane, die nicht nur in New York City spielen, sondern die Stadt als integralen Bestandteil erzählen und sie so zu einem eigenständigen Charakter machen."Die Stadt, die sie schrieben" versammelt einige der wichtigsten Autorinnen, die die Stadt als ihren Lebensmittelpunkt hatten, sich in ihrer Literatur ausführlich mit ihr beschäftigten und das Bild von New York City prägten. Darunter finden sich prominente Namen wie Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton und Siri Hustvedt, aber auch viele Entdeckungen: Emma Lazarus, deren Worte im Sockel der Freiheitsstatue zu finden sind, Kathy Acker, die die Undergroundliteratur revolutionierte, Ann Petry, die erste Schwarze Autorin, die eine Million Bücher verkaufte, Nellie Bly, die bereits im 19. Jahrhundert als Undercover-Reporterin arbeitete, Leslie Feinberg mit deren queerem Klassiker Stone Butch Blues oder Daphne Palasi Andreades, die jüngst den Bezirk Queens auf die literarische Stadtkarte brachte - sie alle zeigen die Vielfalt der New Yorker Literatur.
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The Spark
The 'Sixties€ 32,95 -
Les New-Yorkaises
€ 37,50