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Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, another Pulitzer Prize winner, brilliantly captures New York society's conflicts during the Gilded Age with remarkable intricacy and incisive wit. As we recognize and appreciate the exceptional nature of Pulitzer Prize winning novels, we find that each entry ...
Some book lists also include books set in places from the perspective of a writer who lives there. I have not included those books. If you are interested in books about place I recommend looking throughA year of reading the world, which lists one book for every nation in the world. I w...
I love books. Here I’m listing the books I’ve read this year – trying to post each one once even if I’ve read it more than once in the year. I hope you find a title here that interestsyou.NOTE:if there are any you’d like to purchase please go to my pageBUY THE BOOK!to...
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, novel, 1920 Major themes and devices: Tradition and duty, personal freedom, hypocrisy, irony, social class, family, "maintaining appearances", honor Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys, novel, 1966 Major themes and devices: slavery, race, magic, madness, wildness...
She has now read close to 100 books, including every single novel by Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Henry James and Thomas Mann.My mother-in-law discusses her passion with the enthusiasm of a young girl, although she can also be a very tough critic, writing...
Here are the books most frequently repeated (after 1. Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind and 2. Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire):Virginia Woolf 3. To the Lighthouse 4. Mrs. Dalloway 5. The Waves 6. OrlandoDjuna Barnes 7. NightwoodEdith Wharton 8. The House of Mirth 9. ...
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence, 1920 Wiggins, Marianne – Herself in Love, 1987 Wilde, Oscar:The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 Willis, Sarah:Some Things That Stay, 2000 Wilson, Eric G.: My Business is to Create, 2011 Winterson, Jeanette:The Passion, 1987 ...
She has now read close to 100 books including every single novel by Anthony Trollope Charles Dickens Jane Austen Edith Wharton Henry James and Thomas Mann. My mother-in-law discusses her passion with the enthusiasm of a young girl although she can also be a very tough critic writing “VG’...
List of the best authors of all time as voted on by normal, book-loving people. For this list, we will consider writers who are mainly novelists. Many of the people included on this list are famous authors who wrote popular books; others may not be as well-known, but are ma...