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Walking the Bounds1 comment

Caitiewrites wrote 1 month ago: When I was young, we were forced to read Ethan Frome for school.  I found this novel utterly infuria … more →

Tags: All, London, walking, Wapping, winter, Edith Wharton, tower bridge

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton19 comments

Brooke wrote 1 month ago: Dear Edith Wharton, I love you. My crush on you knows no bounds and I rank you right alongside Jane … more →

Tags: Brooke's Book Review, book, Fiction, Classic, Edith Wharton, Literature, Book Review, novella

"A maze of flying lines"

JRB wrote 1 month ago: The great American writer Edith Wharton once used the following expression to describe the eyes of o … more →

Tags: Thoughts, photos, Literature, Quotes, Photography, World, Quote, Edith Wharton, Novel

Edith Wharton, the American Austen3 comments

Jim Booth wrote 1 month ago: Edith Wharton (courtesy Wikimedia) “We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres o … more →

Tags: Culture, Arts & Literature, ArtSunday, beatles, Edith Wharton, Emma, Holden Caulfield, j d salinger, Jane Austen

Read This: SUMMER by Edith Wharton2 comments

haleigh robbins wrote 1 month ago: This is almost too obvious – If you’re anxious for summer and want a read that takes you … more →

Tags: literary things, age of innocence, Edith Wharton, Glimpses of the Moon, House of mirth, Literature, Prohibition, summer-by-edith-wharton, Wharton

SHORT CUTS: books to read for people with unruly stacks in unlikely places14 comments

Words We Women Write wrote 2 months ago: She’s never written a novel, but she’s read thousands. Guest Blogger Sue knows that certain bo … more →

Tags: Authors, Books, Guest Blogger, Reading, Literature, Classics, postaday, Julian Barnes, postaweek 2013

54 great opening lines: 5

Trish wrote 3 months ago: I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time … more →

Tags: 54 Great Opening Lines, Literature, postaday, Postaday2013, opening lines, Edith Wharton

Describing Feelings and Sensations with Noun Phrases

sweettenorbull wrote 3 months ago: A lot of the action in Ethan Frome isn’t really action at all, at least not in the Vin Diesel sense. … more →

Tags: Education, GCSE, English, Sentence Structure, Writing techniques, GCSE english, writing, Writing Tips, Writing: Stories

Resonating Metaphors and Similes1 comment

sweettenorbull wrote 3 months ago: Chapter One of Ethan Frome starts with the following imagery: The village lay under two feet of snow … more →

Tags: Education, GCSE, English, Writing techniques, GCSE english, writing, Writing Tips, Writing: Stories, descriptive writing

The Extended Metaphor

sweettenorbull wrote 3 months ago:   John Henry Twachtman’s ‘Snowbound’ – used for the cover on an earlier … more →

Tags: Education, GCSE, English, Writing techniques, GCSE english, writing, Writing Tips, Writing: Stories, descriptive writing

Book of the Week: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

sweettenorbull wrote 3 months ago: Often when it snows – especially if we get a good covering, I’ll think of this book. It’s set … more →

Tags: Education, GCSE, English, recommended, Books, GCSE english, Writing Tips, Writing: Stories, descriptive writing

1001 Books/The Classics Club Book Review - Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton5 comments

Melissa @ Swamp of Boredom wrote 3 months ago: Synopsis:Tragic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. A poverty-stricke … more →

Tags: Books, 1001 Books to Read Before You Die, The Classics Club, Edith Wharton, American Literature, the classics club, 1001 books, Modernism

Ethan Frome

lauraj684 wrote 3 months ago: I found this piece on my other blog, but it’s something that probably fits better here. I wrot … more →

Tags: Fiction, fiction (2), Edith Wharton, Misery, Relationships, claustrophobia

Edith Wharton - Style Icon1 comment

S.P.A. wrote 3 months ago: NAME: Edith Wharton OCCUPATION: Author BIRTH DATE: January 24, 1862 DEATH DATE: August 11, 1937 PLAC … more →

Tags: Jazz Age, New York, New York City, Lost generation, style icon, Not so secret obsessions, James Joyce, Writers, Edith Wharton

"A Spirit and her Little Ghost Dog"

sknobloch wrote 3 months ago: Today’s page pays homage to Edith Wharton……. If you have never read her works … more →

Tags: Life Musings from a Reiki Master and Intuitive Animal C, Gettysburg, Civil War, Being a Psychic Intuitive, animals, Dreamcatchers, cemetery art, "Taphophile Treasures", "Metaphysical Intentions"

Happy Birthday Edith Wharton3 comments

Deborah DeLong wrote 3 months ago: Reprinted from The Writers’ Almanac It’s the birthday of Edith Wharton who said, “ … more →

Tags: Paris, New York City, Edith Wharton, House of mirth, age of innocence, Henry James, James Joyce

Snow in Literature1 comment

Eve Proofreads wrote 4 months ago: I’m with Shelley: ‘I love, snow and all the forms of the radiant frost.’ It is a w … more →

Tags: Writing #2, Books, writing, Dubliners, James Joyce, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Cymbeline, Kawabata

Everything Should Be Important1 comment

RichardEcureuil wrote 4 months ago: So recently, I have finished two books. Both had a very different way of approaching their particula … more →

Tags: writing, Important, English, Reading, Great Expectations, Importance, Everything, should, BE

Jay's Holiday Reading List [from now]

jaywcarmichael2 wrote 5 months ago: I thought I’d share with you the books I want to finish before uni begins in 2013. Although, I … more →

Tags: blogs, Gerald Murnane, Patrick White, Happy Valley, Atonement, Barley Patch, The bridges of Madison county, R. J. Waller, A History of Books


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