The novel was made into a movie in 1993, Edith died in 1937 in France.(1)Why did Edith Wharton begin writing? A.To make her boring life interesting.B.To make herself known by others.C.To make money to look after her sick husband.D.To run away from the control of her social class...
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Novelist: In 1853, American William Wells Brown, then living in London, published the first novel by an African American: "Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter". Brown would also publish the first play by an African American, "The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom", in 1858. Comic Book...
Her fourth novel is The Age of Desire, based on the life of American writer Edith Wharton. Age: 71 Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Jennie Tuttle Hobart Esther Jane "Jennie" Tuttle Hobart (April 30, 1849 – January 8, 1941) was the wife of Vice President Garret Hobart and a philanthropist...
The Mount is as much Wharton asThe Age of InnocenceorThe House of Mirth,her two most famous novels. Like a novel, it was constructed by a singular artistic vision laboring to make something grand and sublime. I asked my sons if they could see the whale yet. This time they barely bother...
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy | Summary & Characters from Chapter 11 / Lesson 13 174K Study ‘’The God of Small Things’’ by Arundhati Roy. Read a summary of ‘’The God of Small Things’’ and find a list of the main characters in Roy's novel. Related...
Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the vastest, most complex, and most engagi…… 7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Grea...
所谓“迷惘”,是指这些作家们共有的彷徨和失望情绪。He published his first novel,The Sun Also Rises, in 1926, at the age of 27. 10. George Bernard Shaw38. George Bernard Shaw: 萧伯纳(1856—1950),爱尔兰剧作家,英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家,代表作包括《圣女贞德》和下文提到的《卖花女》(...