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NEWS ABOUT: Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton stories: 4 news summaries

(Newser) - Looking to vacation in a spot that inspired your favorite novel? USA Today asks travel expert Melissa Biggs Bradley about the best hotels to connect physically with the literature.
  • The Resort at Paws Up, Greenough, Mont.: "The Blackfoot River, which runs through this 37,000-acre ranch,
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entertainment • travel • New York City • Montana • literature • Paris • hotel • Key West • Edith Wharton • Simone de Beauvoir • Ernest Hemingway • Jay-ZTV • Oscar Wilde • Herman Melville • Gertrude Stein • Norman Maclean • Lennox, Mass.

OPINION

Need a Blurb?
Meet the Usual Suspects

New writers' book jackets reveal the top 10 lazy comparisons

Jan 7, 09 5:43 PM CST
(Newser) - Blurbs for hot new writers' books unfailingly liken them to a handful of known quantities, Chris Rovzar observes in New York. Here are some of the most-abused blurb comparisons:
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald or Edith Wharton. Writing about crumbling, decadent high society? "If you're a boy, you're Scott; if
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Hunter S. Thompson • Jack Kerouac • writer • book • Edith Wharton • Candace Bushnell • David Sedaris • Chuck Klosterman • authors • F. Scott Fitzgerald

The House of Mirthlessness

Drowning in debt,
Edith Wharton's
Mass. estate faces foreclosure

Feb 28, 08 12:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Edith Wharton's masterpieces include The House of Mirth, but the story of her own house is much less joyous. Her estate in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, currently a museum called the Mount that chronicles her life and career, is drowning under some $9 million in debt. Now, writes the Berkshire ... More »

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philanthropy • literature • foreclosure • museums • Edith Wharton • the Mount • Berkshires • The House of Mirth • estate

Wharton Letter Bolsters
Suicide Theory

Heroine Lily Bart overdosed deliberately, note implies

Nov 21, 07 5:47 PM CST
(Newser) - A recently-discovered letter by Edith Wharton provides new evidence in The House of Mirth's lingering literary mystery, suggesting that heroine Lily Bart does, in fact, intend to kill herself at the book's end, the New York Times reports. Though the ambiguous text has led many to believe she died... More »

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suicide • literature • letters • biography • book • Edith Wharton • Lily Bart • House of Mirth

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