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Book Livre Des Sans foyer

Download or read book Livre Des Sans foyer written by Edith Wharton and published by NEw York, C. Scribner. This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the course of fund-raising for civilian victims of World War I, Edith Wharton assembled this monumental benefit volume by drawing upon her connections to the era's leading authors and artists. The unique compilation forms a 'Who's Who' of early 20th century culture, featuring poetry, stories, illustrations, music and other contributions from scores of luminaries. ... Much of the text is presented in both English and French. Includes an Introduction by former U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt."--

Book The Book of the Homeless

Download or read book The Book of the Homeless written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of the Homeless

Download or read book The Book of the Homeless written by Edith Wharton and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Edith Wharton may be best known for her novels analyzing New York and 's upper crust, the author lived in France from 1907 until her death in 1937. There, she witnessed the ravages of World War I, especially the hardships endured by refugees. She helped by establishing The Children of Flanders Relief Committee and The American Hostels for Refugees. To raise money for her charities, she edited this work of poems, essays, and pictures. Contributors include some of the brightest names of the time -- Joseph Conrad, Jean Cocteau, Paul Claudel, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Maurice Maeterlinck, George Santayana, Igor Stravinsky, and W.B. Yeats. Theodore Roosevelt provided the introduction, in which he wrote: and quot;We owe to Mrs. Wharton all the assistance we can give. We owe this assistance to the good name of America, and above all for the cause of humanity we owe it to the children, the women and the old men who have suffered such dreadful wrong for absolutely no fault of theirs. and quot; EDITH WHARTON and (1862-1937 and ) is the author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. For her charitable work, she was awarded the French Legion of Honor and other decorations.

Book Livre Des Sans foyer

Download or read book Livre Des Sans foyer written by Edith Wharton and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benefit volume for civilian victims of World War I forms a "Who's Who" of early 20th century culture. Poetry, stories, illustrations, and more contributions from scores of luminaries: Hardy, Monet, Conrad, Sargent, and others.

Book Somebody To Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kristan Higgins
  • Publisher : HQN Books
  • Release : 2012-04-24
  • ISBN : 0373776586
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Somebody To Love written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker Welles, a single mother whose family has just lost everything, finds love in an unexpected place when she travels to Maine to sell her lone possession, a decrepit house in need of repair.

Book BK OF THE HOMELESS  LE

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edith 1862-1937 Wharton
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-09-10
  • ISBN : 9781360665634
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book BK OF THE HOMELESS LE written by Edith 1862-1937 Wharton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The End of the Age of Innocence

Download or read book The End of the Age of Innocence written by A. Price and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of the Age of Innocence tells the dramatic story of Edith Wharton's heroic crusade to save the lives of displaced Belgians and suffering citizens of her adopted France, by organizing refugee relief efforts during WWI.

Book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton written by Emily Orlando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider: - Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics; - Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose; - Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather; -The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco; - Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities. Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

Book Edith Wharton and Genre

Download or read book Edith Wharton and Genre written by Laura Rattray and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive new archival research, Edith Wharton and Genre: Beyond Fiction offers the first study of Wharton’s full engagement with original writing in genres outside those with which she has been most closely identified. So much more than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial playwright, a gifted poet, a trailblazing travel writer, an innovative and subversive critic, a hugely influential design writer, and an author who overturned the conventions of autobiographical form. Her versatility across genres did not represent brief sidesteps, temporary diversions from what has long been read as her primary role as novelist. Each was pursued fully and whole-heartedly, speaking to Wharton’s very sense of herself as an artist and her connected vision of artistry and art. The stories of these other Edith Whartons, born through her extraordinary dexterity across a wide range of genres, and their impact on our understanding of her career, are the focus of this new study, revealing a bolder, more diverse, subversive and radical writer than has long been supposed.

Book Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library written by Toronto Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yeats and Modern Poetry

Download or read book Yeats and Modern Poetry written by Edna Longley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland shaped both his criticism and his poetry. Close readings of particular poems focus on structure, demonstrating how radically Yeats' approach to poetic form differs from that of Pound and Eliot. Longley discusses other twentieth-century poets in relation to Yeats' insistence on tradition, and offers valuable insights into the work of Edward Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Wilfred Owen, Hugh MacDiarmid, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Her postscript addresses key issues in contemporary poetry by taking a fresh look at Yeats's enduring legacy.

Book Brentano s Book Chat

Download or read book Brentano s Book Chat written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Haverhill Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the Haverhill Public Library written by Haverhill Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Son at the Front

Download or read book A Son at the Front written by Edith Wharton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted. Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.

Book Edith Wharton

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Tuttleton
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1992-09-25
  • ISBN : 9780521383196
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Edith Wharton written by James W. Tuttleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writing of Edith Wharton from the 1890s until her death in 1937. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. In addition, lists of other reviews not presented here are provided. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific titles and indicate the development of Wharton's reputation as a novelist, short story writer, travel writer, and autobiographer.

Book Proof Through the Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenn Watkins
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0520231589
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Proof Through the Night written by Glenn Watkins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining cultural history of music during World War I, covering all the major European nations as well as the United States, in both classical and popular genres. The book is lavishly illustrated and includes a CD.

Book The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Download or read book The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the second of the projected eight-volume edition comprising all the surviving letters of Joseph Conrad. Once completed the edition will have assembled over 3,500 letters, one third of them as yet unpublished and many others only published before in inaccurate versions. The period covered by this volume, 1898-1902, was one of considerable achievement and anxiety for Conrad. The birth of his first child, the death of Stephen Crane, the murder of a friend's son, an encounter with an early X-ray machine, imperial wars in Cuba and South Africa - these events forced Conrad to face the problems of identity in terms of family, nation, history, and the cosmic order. This is also the period of 'Youth', 'Amy Foster', 'Typhoon', Lord Jim, and 'Heart of Darkness'. Often funny, always thoughtful, full of verbal energy even in the toils of severe depression, the letters in Volume Two present Conrad at a crucial though vulnerable moment of his life and literary career."--Publisher's description of v. 2