A Place in Time: Middlesex Country, Virginia, 1650 1750
ISBN: 0393303187
Author: Darrett B. Rutman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Rating: 3.43
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Minggu, 01 Juni 1986
Senin, 12 Mei 1986
The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence
The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts.
The four novels in this Library of America volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy. In all of them her strong and autobiographical impulse is disciplined by her writer's craft and her unfailing regard for her audience.
The House of Mirth (1905), Wharton's tenth book and her first novel of contemporary life, was an immediate runaway bestseller, with 140,000 copies in print within three months of publication. The story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn among the upper class of turn-of-the-century New York, it touches on the insidious effects of social convention and upon the sexual and financial aggression to which women of independent spirit were exposed.
The Reef (1912) is the story of two couples whose marriage plans are upset by the revelation of a past affair between George Darrow (a mature bachelor) and Sophy Vener, who happens to be the fiancée of his future wife's stepson. Henry James called the novel "a triumph of method," and it shares the rich nuance of his own The Golden Bowl.
The Custom of the Country (1913) is the amatory saga of Undine Spragg of Apex City—beautiful, spoiled, and ambitious—whose charms conquer New York and European society. Vulgar and voracious, she presides over a series of men, representing the old and new aristocracies of both continents, in a comedy drawn unmistakably from life.
The Age of Innocence (1920) is set in the New York of Wharton's youth, when the rules and taboos of her social "tribe" held as-yet unchallenged sway. A quasi-anthropological study of a remembered culture and its curious conventions, it tells the story of the Countess Olenska (formerly Ellen Mingott), refugee from a disastrous European marriage, and Newland Archer, heir to a tradition of respectability and family honor, as they struggle uneasily against their sexual attraction.
ISBN: 0940450313
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Library of America
Rating: 4.32
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Selasa, 31 Desember 1985
The Kids Book about Death and Dying
The Kids Book about Death and Dying
What is death? What is it like when a friend or relative dies? Is there life after death?
ISBN: 0316753904
Author: Eric Rofes
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Rating: 5.00
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Minggu, 01 Januari 1984
Grief, Dying, Death
Grief, Dying, Death
In this comprehensive manual, the author provides both the theoretical background and the practical treatment interventions necessary for working with those who are bereaved or dying.Important topics such as anticipatory grief, postdeath mourning, and the stress of grief are described in detail. Grief reactions, both normal and abnormal, as well as their causes are analyzed. Special attention is given to grief caused by the death of a child or spouse, death by suicide, and children's grief.
Numerous exercises and case examples are included to help the caregiver recognize the highly individual processes of grief and dying, and to assess each patient's and family's unique situation.
ISBN: 0878222324
Author: Therese A. Rando
Publisher: Research Press
Rating: 4.14
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Sabtu, 01 Januari 1983
Roman Fever (and Other Stories)
Roman Fever (and Other Stories)
A Virago Modern Classic These stories - all powerful moral analyses - demonstrate the true professionalism of Edith Wharton.
ISBN: 0860683737
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: Little Brown and Co. (UK)
Rating: 4.08
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Minggu, 31 Oktober 1982
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857 1880
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857 1880
An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer's life and times. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert's own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. Flaubert's letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.
ISBN: 0674526406
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Belknap Press
Rating: 4.55
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Rabu, 01 Januari 1975
Below the Root (Green Sky, #1)
Below the Root (Green Sky, #1)
ISBN: 0689304579
Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Rating: 4.12
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