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Leurs Enfants
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A Son at the Front
Set amid the dislocations of the First World War, A Son at the Front examines the private costs of public catastrophe through John Campton, an American painter in Paris whose son, George, is drawn into military service. Wharton's prose is cool, exacting, and psychologically acute, balancing social observation with moral tragedy. Published in 1923, the novel belongs to the postwar literature of bereavement and disillusion, yet it is distinctively Whartonian in its scrutiny of class, expatriate life, parental feeling, and the brittle evasions of fashionable society. Edith Wharton, born into New York's upper-class world in 1862, brought to fiction an insider's knowledge of privilege and its constraints. Her long residence in France and her humanitarian work during the war deeply shaped this novel's perspective. Unlike writers who approached the conflict primarily from the trenches, Wharton considered war's pressures on families, civilians, artists, and social institutions, transforming personal anxiety and historical witness into disciplined art. This book is recommended for readers interested in literary modernity, war fiction, and the emotional aftermath of history. It will especially appeal to those who value subtle characterization over spectacle and who wish to see how a major American novelist interpreted Europe's defining crisis.
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The Children
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The Children
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A Son at the Front
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A Son at the Front
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The Marne
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Coming Home
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Fighting France From Dunkerque To Belport (Edition2024)
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Madame De Treymes
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Twilight Sleep
Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray realistically the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a national bestseller, was awarded The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is an Acquiring Editor at Unnamed Press and co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. Allison Miriam Smith is a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She is also an Acquiring Editor and Publishing & Publicity Manager for Unnamed Press. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California where she was an assistant curator for the USC Doheny Library George Cassady Lewis Carroll Special Collection. She later went on to earn a Masters in 18th & 19th c. Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, working nights at the library. Before Unnamed Press, she was a bookseller at Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA.
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