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Title: Sanctuary by Edith Wharton ISBN: 0-8122-1792-6 Publisher: Pine Street Books Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: So smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared
Comment: Edith Wharton was born in 1986 to an upper class family in New York City. She could trace her ancestry back three centuries, and was expected to live an aristocratic life. She was educated at home, and married Teddy Wharton in 1885, settling into her role as society marm. Her marriage ended with the discovery of Teddy's affair in 1913, and Edith set herself free to publish many books, of which the most well known is probably The Age Of Innocence. Edith Wharton was a contemporary of Teddy Roosevelt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry James. The quality of her writing is just beginning to be appreciated.
Kate Orme is a young woman engaged to Denis Peyton. They are both aristocrats, and as such are expected to remain in rigid roles, with the man shielding the woman from all upsets. When Denis confesses to a despicable act to protect his family's name involving the death of a young, pregnant woman who was secretly married to his brother, Kate is shattered by the exposure of this act. She decides to marry Denis anyway to protect his future children, and sets out to become the perfect mother. She has a son, who she raises by herself after Denis' death, but this son seems to have inherited the faulty character gene of his father. When a situation arises to test the meddle of her son, Kate has her doubts as to her ability as a mother:
"As she sat there in the radius of lamp-light which, for so many evenings, had held Dick and herself in a charmed circle of tenderness, she saw that her love for her boy had come to be merely a kind of extended egotism. Love had narrowed instead of widening her, had rebuilt between herself and life the very walls which, years and years before, she had laid low with bleeding fingers. It was horrible... How she had come to sacrifice everything to the one passion of ambition for her boy..."
Wharton is, obviously, a first rate writer who has gone without accolades for far too long because of her gender. It is fitting that her works be rediscovered by a wider audience. Her insight into gender differences and difficulties is far ahead of her time...a time when women were relegated to narrow roles of motherhood because they were thought to be of inferior intellect. Aside from that, Wharton's writing is so smooth that the reader is instantly ensnared. A great read.
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Title: The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring ISBN: 0140232028 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: TWILIGHT SLEEP by Edith Wharton ISBN: 0684839644 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Edith Wharton an Extraordinary Life: An Illustrated Biography by Eleanor Dwight ISBN: 0810927950 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The MOTHERS RECOMPENSE by Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss ISBN: 0684825317 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 03 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Old New York by Edith Wharton ISBN: 0020383142 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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