Sulle rive dell'Hudson

I've read many of Wharton's books and this is perhaps my favorite. While vastly different from her novels of New York, I found it most similar in style to Summer. This saga follows the life of burgeoning writer Vance Weston. Over the course of many years (five or six maybe) we see him develop in min Leggi tutto

• "C’erano momenti in cui la sua anima era come una foresta, piena di ombre e mormorii – arcana, distante -, un luogo in cui perdersi, un luogo spaventoso, quasi, in cui restare soli" • "Proprio davanti alla finestra del cottage, un ramo di melo attraversava il vetro. Per molto tempo Vance era rimast Leggi tutto

Deat had simply closed the book in which he had long ago read the last word. The strongest part of the book were the characters and the portraits of two marriages, so different and yet, so similar. The characters weren't black and white. The study of them was brilliant. And their marriages - a gr

Edith Wharton's classic story of a young Midwesterner who heads to New York in hopes of becoming a writer is filled with elements that her fans will recognize at once. The great themes of love, renunciation, and bittersweet reconciliation play out against a New York peopled with families who embody

A sprawling, magnificent, occasionally tedious, sometimes frustrating, often absorbing künstlerromanan centred around an author-protagonist who is deeply unlikeable but whose flaws ring true and whom we can pity, if never actually admire. Wharton is an utter genius at depicting unhappiness in its va Leggi tutto