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Edith Wharton – amerykańska pisarka, pierwsza kobieta, która zdobyła Nagrodę Pulitzera , wielokrotnie nominowana do Nagrody Nobla.

Pochodziła z zamożnej nowojorskiej rodziny Jonesów, nazwisko Wharton dał jej mąż, który w 1913 roku trafił do szpitala psychiatrycznego.

W twórczości zajmowała się uprzywilejowanymi klasami Ameryki, zwłaszcza rodzinnego miasta oraz losami swoich rodaków odwiedzających Europę, zwłaszcza Paryż, ale pisała też o farmerach Nowej Anglii. Zjadliwie komentowała różne klasy amerykańskiego i europejskiego społeczeństwa, przenikliwie przyglądała się zmianom obyczajowym. Znała elitę literacką i polityczną swojej epoki i była trendsetterką w dziedzinie architektury krajobrazu i wystroju wnętrz. Pisała bardzo regularnie, powstało kilkadziesiąt książek.

Przebywała we Francji z małymi tylko przerwami od 1911 roku, także w czasie I wojny światowej .

Miała elegancką posiadłość w Massachusetts, potem w Hyères we Francji.

W latach 90. XX wieku powstały trzy znaczące filmy oparte na jej powieściach: Ethan Frome, reż. John Madden, 1993, Wiek niewinności, reż. Martin Scorsese, 1993, Świat zabawy, reż. Terence Davies, 2000. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Styczeń 1862 – 11. Sierpień 1937   •   Natępne imiona Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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Edith Wharton: Cytaty po angielsku

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

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The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I

“It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues.”

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Sanctuary http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/snctr10.txt, (1903) part II, ch. IV

“How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be "American" before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?”

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Letter to Barrett Wendell (19 July 1919)

“I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.”

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Źródło: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

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The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I

“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”

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"A First Word"
A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Źródło: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34

“To James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an invisible passage over which one knew that silver-footed ironies, veiled jokes, tiptoe malices, were stealing to explode a huge laugh at one's feet.”

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Źródło: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 8

“He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.”

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Edith Wharton książka The House of Mirth

"The House of Mirth" http://www.readprint.com/chapter-10542/The-House-of-Mirth-Edith-Wharton (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6

“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist — or exist in a less measure.”

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Letter to Robert Grant (19 November 1907)

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”

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Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”

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"The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tdmos10.txt (1904)

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

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