The Fruit of the Tree - Couverture souple

Wharton, Edith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555534503 ISBN 13 : 9781555534509

Editeur : Northeastern University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Controversial when it was first published in 1907 for its frank treatment of second marriages, desire, divorce, drug addiction and mercy killing, Edith Wharton's "The Fruit of the Tree" addresses themes that remain strikingly relevant for today's readers. Set in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts during the height of the progressive era, the book centres on heroine Justine Brent, a professionally trained nurse who is called upon to attend her childhood friend Bessy Westmore, a rich textile mill owner left paralyzed by a riding accident. When Bessy begs to be released from a life of intense pain and suffering, Justine debates the moral issues and makes the difficult choice to administer a lethal dose of morphine. After Bessy dies, Justine falls in love with her widowed husband and joins him in his efforts to create better conditions for the factory workers. Questions surrounding Bessy's death, however, haunt their relationship, and Justine learns first-hand the tragic consequences of social idealism and reform. Full of plot twists and turns and finely drawn characters, "The Fruit of the Tree" is a must read for anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of Wharton's prose.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

T JTE FRUIT OF THE THEE I IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Ilan-aford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and ann lay stretched along the bed. His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm behind him she effected a professional readjustment of the pillows. "Is that better?" As she leaned over, he lifted his anxious bewildered eyes, deep-sunk under ridges of suffering. "I don't s'pose there's any kind of a show for me, is there?" he asked, pointing with his free hand-the stained seamed hand of the mechanic-to the inert bundle on the quilt. IIct only immediate answer was to wipe the dampness from his forehead; then she said: "We'll talk about tliat to-morrow." "Why not now?" "Because Dr. Disbrow can't tell till the inflammation goes down." "Will it go down by to-morrow?" "It will begin to, if you don't excite yourself and keep up the fever." I 3]

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Biographie de l'auteur

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northeastern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555534503
• ISBN 13: 9781555534509
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne