- Fiction, Romance, Historical, Victorian, Young women, fiction, Guardian and ward, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction
Summer, Edith Wharton wrote to Gaillard Lapsley, "is known to its author and her familars as the Hot Ethan." One of the first American novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, it was a publishing sensation when it appeared in 1917, praised by Joseph Conrad, Howard Sturgis, and Percy Lubbock, and favorably compared to Madame Bovary.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Edith Wharton
- First published
- 1917
- Pages
- 168
- Publisher
- Berkley, IndyPublish.com, Collier Books
- Editions
- 85
- Language
- French, Spanish, Arabic, English
- ISBN
- 9781414210957
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“A GIRL came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.”
Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer and designer. *The Age of Innocence* (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. She spoke fluent French as well as several other languages and many of her books were published in both French and English. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton
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