Believed by some to have been an inspiration for The Great Gatsby-Fitzgerald wrote the title cards for the novel’s 1923 silent film adaptation-it follows Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, both of prominent but financially diminished New York families, as they hatch a scheme to marry in order to live off of their wedding gifts and divorce as soon as either finds a way to step up the social ladder. The Glimpses of the Moon (1922) is a story of love finding its way amidst upper-class social maneuvering. The Library of America now brings together these brilliant books from the 1920s in the fifth volume of its definitive edition of Wharton’s collected works. Your credit card will not be charged until the book is shipped.Īfter winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton published four novels that brought her signature blend of dramatic irony and penetrating social satire to bear on what she called “the growing sense of waste and loss wrought by those irreparable years” of World War I. You may order a copy now and it will be shipped to you when the reprint has arrived. Not entirely a waste of time -precisely because the book is so brief- I would recommend you skip it since there are so many other great short works -Of Mice and Men, Fahrenheit 451, The Pearl, The Old Man and the Sea, The Tunnel- that I would recommend reading before Ethan Frome, unless, of course, you have to read it as a High School assignment.This title is out of stock and a reprint has not yet been scheduled. His voice is monotone and boring, always conspiring with the plot to make you numb and fall sleep. Sadly, the work was so uninteresting that even though the book is very short, I did not care to go back and find out. "I had the story, bit by bit, from various people." the narrator warns us at the beginning, and quite frankly, am not sure that I fully grasped how and when who learned what.
Besides, the chronological line of the story is somewhat hard to follow. The characters are flat and the plot line is rather dull and predictable. Not entirely as dismal as it had been sold to me, the story never captured my imagination and the ending was somewhat of a disappointment especially because the final repercussions are for the most part self inflicted. Not totally a waste of time but I'd skip it!
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