The Valley of Decision - Couverture rigide

Wharton, Edith

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1434440850 ISBN 13 : 9781434440853

Editeur : Wildside Press, 2025

Synopsis

"Edith Wharton's first novel, The Valley of Decision, is one of her most important and distinguished novels, yet it has received relatively little (and mostly superficial) attention, in spite of its initial popularity. Set in northern Italy in the late eighteenth century, it concerns the decisions that must be made by Odo Valsecca, a young man of liberal ideas who inherits a dukedom during the years of the French Revolution." -- The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This two part romance chronicles the rise to power of Odo Valsecca during the intellectual and political tumult which preceded the French Revolution. During his childhood and early manhood, Odo comes in close contact with all the major factions the peasantry, the clergy, the liberal freethinkers, and the nobility which have a vital stake in maintaining or subverting the antiquated power structure based on rigid class distinctions and superstitious religious traditions. Many of Wharton’s novels are characterised by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics. In such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence she employed both humour and profound empathy to describe the lives of New York’s upper-class and the vanishing of their world in the early years of the 20th century. In contrast, she used a harsher tone in her novel Ethan Frome to convey the atmosphere of lower-class rural Massachusetts. In addition to writing several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wildside Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1434440850
• ISBN 13: 9781434440853
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 396
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible