Welcome to the inaugural Wharton Review!During the month of May, join us in celebrating the life and times of Edith Newbold Jones (24th January 1862 - 11th August 1937).
I first read The Age of Innocence in my early twenties ... and fell in love.
I loved her exquisite use of language, I loved her tortured souls, I loved her social observations and I loved learning about old New York.
I then went on to read (and mostly love) The Custom of the Country, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth & Summer.
I watched the movie of The Age of Innocence with Daniel Day Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer several times & I enjoyed the BBC production of The Buccaneers.
I have The Age of Innocence as a reread on my Classics Club list & I recently found an old copy of The Reef in a second hand bookshop.When I decided to host a Wharton related event last week, I also found her memoir A Backward Glance and Hermoine Lee's biography from 2007 on the bottom of my TBR pile!
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Wharton is WONDERFUL! I went to visit her home in the Berkshires in 2012--I have to check out Lee's biography of her, it's one I haven't read.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you will post a piece with some photos of your visit to Edith's house?
DeleteThanks for stopping by.
The Lee biography is a chunkster...with very tiny print! I'm not sure I will finish it in a month.
Wow! I've never read 'The Age of Innocence' before or any of Edith Wharton's books! The only classics I actually read are Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen :P but I pretty much adore classics so I might want to give her books a try! :D
ReplyDeleteJillian @ Jillian's Books
If you like Austen & Bronté, I feel fairly safe in saying you'll like many of the Wharton's too.
DeleteI hope you can join us.
Age of Innocence....one of the best books I ever read...and the ending is unforgettable!
ReplyDeleteThe ending always leaves me which such mixed emotions. It's so bittersweet...and definitely unforgettable!
DeleteI will join you in reading some Wharton this month. I just can't decide whether to start with The Age of Innocence or The House of Mirth...
ReplyDeleteGlad you can join us :-)
DeleteMy favourite Wharton is TAOI so I will happily barrack for it - read it. read it. read it!!
Wish I could join you, but unfortunately it won't work out. Have a fun month with all things Wharton!
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun idea! I just posted on my first short Wharton book!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great event! I can't believe I only got around to The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence in the last two years. I've also read a number of her smaller novellas but I still have The Custom of the Country and Ethan Frome on my to-read pile. I wish I could take part this month but I just have too many things going on. Have fun with everything Wharton :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I've discovered your blog thanks to this event but I'm afraid I will not be able to contribute anything else.
ReplyDeleteI'm just as surprised as you to find a blog that's right up my street after so many years.
Thanks for stopping by Caroline & linking up - it's lovely to meet a new blogger (to me) at any time :-)
DeleteI will happily promote your Angela Carter week in June as well.