Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (lahir Edith Newbold Jones, 24 Januari 1862-11 Ogos 1937) ialah seorang novelis dan penulis cerita pendek Amerika. Tulisannya banyak membahas mengenai kehidupan masyarakat kelas atas di New York, Amerika Syarikat. Pada tahun 1921, salah satu karyanya yang berjudul The Age of Innocence dianugerahkan Anugerah Pulitzer dalam bidang Sastera.

Edith Wharton
Wharton, sekitar 1895
Lahir	Edith Newbold Jones (1862-01-24)24 Januari 1862 Bandar Raya New York, Amerika Syarikat
Meninggal dunia	Ogos 11, 1937(1937-08-11) (umur 75) Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, Perancis
Tempat pengebumian	Cimetière des Gonards
Pekerjaan	Novelis, penulis cerita pendek, pereka
Anugerah	Anugerah Pulitzer untuk Kesusasteraan 1921 The Age of Innocence
Pasangan	Edward Robbins Wharton (1885–1913)
Tandatangan

Kehidupan

Edith Wharton dilahirkan dengan nama Edith Newbold Jones di New York, Amerika Syarikat pada 4 Januari 1862. Keluarganya merupakan salah satu keluarga dari masyarakat kelas atas. Pada tahun 1885, beliau berkahwin dengan Edward Wharton, salah seorang pegawai bank terkaya dari New York. Namun mereka kemudian bercerai pada tahun 1913.

Karya

Sumber:

Novel

• The Valley of Decision, 1902
• The House of Mirth, 1905
• The Fruit of the Tree, 1907
• The Reef, 1912
• The Custom of the Country, 1913
• The Triumph of Night, 1916
• Summer, 1917
• The Marne, 1918
• The Age of Innocence, 1920 (pemenang Hadiah Pulitzer)
• The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922
• A Son at the Front, 1923
• The Mother's Recompense, 1925
• Twilight Sleep, 1927
• The Children, 1928
• Hudson River Bracketed, 1929
• The Gods Arrive, 1932
• The Buccaneers, 1938 (unfinished)

Novela dan novelet

• The Touchstone, 1900
• Sanctuary, 1903
• Madame de Treymes, 1907
• Ethan Frome, 1911
• Bunner Sisters, 1916
• Old New York, 1924
  1. False Dawn; 2. The Old Maid; 3. The Spark; 4. New Year's Day
• Fast and Loose: A Novelette, 1938 (written in 1876–1877)

Puisi

• Verses, 1878
• Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, 1909
• Twelve Poems, 1926

Koleksi cerita pendek

• The Greater Inclination, 1899, includes Souls Belated.
• Crucial Instances, 1901
• The Descent of Man and Other Stories, 1904
• The Other Two, 1904
• The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories, 1908
• Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910
• Xingu and Other Stories, 1916
• Here and Beyond, 1926
• Certain People, 1930
• Human Nature, 1933
• The World Over, 1936
• Ghosts, 1937
• Roman Fever and Other Stories, 1964
• Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes, 1970
• The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, 1973
• The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton, 1998 (Carroll & Graf Publishers; paperback, 640 pages)
• The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, 2007

Bukan cereka

• The Decoration of Houses, 1897
• Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 1904
• Italian Backgrounds, 1905
• A Motor-Flight Through France, 1908 (travel)
• Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war)
• French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919
• In Morocco, 1920 (travel)
• The Writing of Fiction, 1925 (essays on writing)
• A Backward Glance, 1934 (autobiography)
• Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings, Edited by Frederick Wegener, 1996
• Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888–1920, 1995, Edited by Sarah Bird Wright

Sebagai penyunting

• The Book of the Homeless, 1916

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut

• Armbruster, Elif S. (2011) "Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home." New York: Peter Lang (ISBN 978-1433112492)
• Benstock, Shari (1994) No Gifts From Chance: a biography of Edith Wharton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Collas, Philippe and Eric Villedary, Edith Wharton's French Riviera (2002) Paris, New York : Flammarion/Rizzoli (ISBN 2-84110-161-4)
• Drizou, Myrto, ed. Critical Insights: Edith Wharton (2018) Salem Press.
• Dwight, Eleanor. (1994) Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life, An Illustrated Biography New York: Harry N. Abrams.
• Franzen, Jonathan (February 13–20, 2012). "A Critic at Large: A Rooting Interest". The New Yorker. 88 (1): 60–65. Dicapai pada 2014-11-13.
• Hutchinson, Hazel (2015). The War That Used Up Words: American Writers and the First World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Lee, Hermione (2007) Edith Wharton. London: Chatto & Windus; New York: Knopf.
• Lewis, R. W. B. (1975) Edith Wharton: a biography New York: Harper & Row ISBN 0-06-012603-5
• Lowry, Elizabeth (December 9, 2011). "What Edith Knew: Freeing Wharton from the Master's Shadow". Harper's Magazine. 317 (1903): 96–100, 102.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Montgomery, Maureen E. (1998) Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-90566-4
• Novellas and Other Writings (Cynthia Griffin Wolff, ed.) (The Library of America, 1990) ISBN 978-0-940450-53-0, which contains her autobiography, A Backward Glance.
• The Letters of Edith Wharton (R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, eds.) ISBN 0-02-034400-7, particularly the editorial introductions to the chronological sections, especially for 1902–07, 1911–14, 1919–27, and 1928–37, and the editorial footnotes to the letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (8 June 1925)
• Twilight Sleep (R. F. Godfrey, ed.) ISBN 0-684-83964-4
• Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (1977) A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton Oxford. ISBN 0-19-502117-7
• Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (1995) A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, Second Edition. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-40918-6

Pautan luar

Wikisource

Wikisource mempunyai karya asli yang dikarang oleh atau mengenai: Edith Wharton

• Edith Wharton Society
• The Mount: Estate and gardens designed by Edith Wharton
• "Writings of Edith Wharton" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

Bahan arkib

• Edith Wharton Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• The Edith Wharton Papers Diarkibkan 2010-07-26 di Wayback Machine at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
• Finding aid to Iola S. Haverstick collection of Edith Wharton materials at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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