New York Times Book Review, J– A good many people have considered Ethan Frome Mrs. Wharton's last novel, The Buccaneers, was left unfinished, but her literary executor had the novel published in 1938. Wharton died in France, St.-Brice-sous-Forêt, on August 11, 1937. She began work on it within a year after receiving the Pulitzer Prize in May 1921 for The Age of Innocence. For her, The Glimpses of the Moon offered a "flight from the last grim years, though its setting and situation were ultra-modern". Among her friends were Henry James, Walter Berry and Bernard Berenson, with whom she traveled in Germany in 1913.Įdith Wharton composed The Glimpses of the Moon after the end of World War I. At her Paris apartment and her garden home in the south of France she became a literary hostess to young writers. For several years, Wharton subjected herself to an intense self-scrutiny. Although she maintained after divorce in 1913 a residence in the U.S., she continued to live in France, where she spent the rest of her life. The Whartons spent much time in Europe from 1906. Edward was a Boston banker and her brother's friend, but they had little in common. In 1885, after a broken engagement to Harry Stevens, Wharton married with no great enthusiasm Edward Wharton, who was twelve years her senior. Wharton was educated privately at home by European governesses, learning French, Italian, and German. A few years after her birth, in 1866 the family went abroad due to financial troubles. Their conditional marriage begins to falter as Susy grows jealous of her husband's attentions to a wealthy young woman and Nick becomes increasingly disgruntled by the moral compromises arising from his wife's social negotiations…Įdith Newbold Jones Wharton was born 1862 in New York, N.Y., into a wealthy and socially prominent family.
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In keeping with their monetary desires, the couple agreed before their marriage that either one is free to divorce if he or she gets a "better chance," i.e. We soon learn that they share a love of the advantages of high society and are enjoying a happy honeymoon through the beneficence of friends who provide homes and money for a time.
The novel opens with the couple enjoying a moonlit evening during their honeymoon. Nick dabbles with unprofitable literary pursuits, and Susy lives on the generosity of women friends for whom she provides companionship. It portrays the marriage of Susy Branch and Nick Lansing, who are of socially prominent but no longer wealthy New York families. The Glimpses of the Moon focuses on the theme of marriage and the social pressures that undermine marital stability and its promise of happiness.
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