Edith Wharton

출생 : 1862-01-24,

사망 : 1937-08-11

약력

From Wikipedia Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862–August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

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The House of Mirth
Novel
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
순수의 시대
Novel
뉴욕 사교계의 두 거목, 아쳐가의 뉴랜드(Newland Archer: 다니엘 데이 루이스 분)와 밍코트가의 메이(May Welland: 위노나 라이더 분)의 약혼 시기를 놓고 인습적인 격식에 얽메인 양가는 의견을 달리하고 있어서 뉴랜드를 안타깝게 한다. 그러던 중, 유럽의 귀족과 결혼했던 메이의 사촌 엘렌(Ellen Olenska: 미셀 파이퍼 분)이 결혼 생활의 파국을 맞고 귀국한다. 이혼이 금기시 되어있는 당시의 분위기에서 엘렌은 늘 사람들의 입에 오르내린다. 그러나 어렸을적 소꼽 친구였던 뉴랜드는 오랜만의 해후로 가슴이 설랜다. 밍코트가의 가장격인 밍코트 부인(Mrs. Mingott: 미리암 마골리스 분)의 용단으로 약혼발표를 거쳐 결혼으로 발전하는 동안, 뉴랜드는 자유분방한 엘렌에게 끌리고 어려움에 처한 그녀를 돕는 사이에 차츰 사랑이 싹튼다. 뉴랜드는 자신이 잘아는 세상에 살고 있는 메이와 그와 오랫동안 꿈꿔오던 세상에 사는 엘렌 사이에서 고민한다. 뉴랜드의 소극적인 성품과 메이의 어리지만 주도한 대응, 그리고 인내로 결국 뉴랜드는 메이의 남편으로 안주한다. 맺어질 수 없는 사랑을 뒤로하고 엘렌은 다시 유럽으로 떠난다. 오랜 세월이 흐른 후 메이를 저세상으로 버내고 뉴랜드는 우연한 기회에 아들과 함께 유럽으로 여행을 떠난다. 엘렌의 아파트를 찾아간 뉴랜드. 그러나 끝내 그는 그녀의 아파트 문을 노크하지 못하고 돌아선다.
Ethan Frome
Novel
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena.
The Children
Novel
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
Bewtiched
Story
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Afterward
Story
An American couple buy an English Manor House - complete with resident sypernatural forces...
The House of Mirth
Novel
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...
The Old Maid
Novel
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
The Age of Innocence
Novel
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
The Marriage Playground
Novel
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
The Age of Innocence
Writer
Directed by Wesley Ruggles.
The Glimpses of the Moon
Novel
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
The House of Mirth
Novel
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
The Custom of the Country
Novel
Undine Spragg, a cunning and attractive woman living in New York during the early part of the Twentieth Century, rises to the top of the city's high society.