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Edith Wharton described him as a man " to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City ..."
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The Chambers were used as part of the location for The House of Mirth an adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton by Terence Davies starring Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd.
" Bradbury's favorite writers growing up included Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote about the American South, Edith Wharton, and Jessamyn West.
Wodehouse's Joy in the Morning, William Golding's Rites of Passage, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Surrealist author Gellu Naum's Zenobia and in Robert E. Howard's Conan series, Edward Gorey's " Fletcher and Zenobia ", and Zenobia / Zeena in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton.
* Edith Wharton ( 1862 – 1937 ), bought Castel Sainte-Claire in 1927, on the site of a former convent in the hills above Hyères, where she lived during the winters and springs until her death in 1937.
While most of the artistic community gathered here were struggling to eke out an existence, well-heeled American socialites such as Peggy Guggenheim, and Edith Wharton from New York City, Harry Crosby from Boston and Beatrice Wood from San Francisco were caught in the fever of creativity.
Then and later many readers find the late style difficult and unnecessary ; his friend Edith Wharton, who admired him greatly, said that there were passages in his work that were all but incomprehensible.
James's correspondents included celebrated contemporaries like Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, along with many others in his wide circle of friends and acquaintances.
It became a leading market for fiction, featuring such authors as Annie Besant, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton.
Day-Lewis returned in 1993, playing Newland Archer in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel The Age of Innocence, opposite Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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Among the original crown jewels were Alfred the Great's State Crown described as " Gould wyerworke set with slight stones and two little bells " which once melted down the gold that it contained fetched £ 248 and 10 shillings, while the little 11th century crown of Queen Edith only realised £ 16.
He was brought up by his mother, Doris Agnes Mary Pike, and her parents, Montague and Edith Kathleen ( née O ' Keefe ) Pike, whom Crawford described as a " close-knit Roman Catholic family ".
The first episode was broadcast on 12 July 2012 ( in which Satan attempts to show Edith that the ancient Greeks and the original Games were not as altruistic as she originally thought and Thomas ' participation in the Infernal Games ends up a crushing and painful disaster ) and the second on 19 July 2012 ( in which Satan is blackmailed by Edith into taking her to the London Olympics to see her competing grand-niece and discovers that the grand-niece isn't quite as Edith described her and Thomas tries to get himself certified insane to escape further eternal punishment
Edith is described by Archie's father as being " too smart " for him because, while Edith appears to have less-than-average intelligence, she is very wise about life and the way the world works.
In this version, she has an admirable character but is not described as preaching or doing good works, nor is she Sister Edith Koestler.
In 1853 Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones built a 24 room gothic villa called Wyndclyffe described by Henry Winthrop Sargent in 1859 as being very fine in the style of a Scottish castle, but by Edith Wharton, Elizabeth's niece, as a gloomy monstrosity.
Historian Edith L. Blumhofer described the Crosby home environment as sustained by " an abiding Christian faith ".
Edith later described a violent confrontation with her husband after Bywaters left, and said that her husband struck her several times and threw her across the room.
In 1946, Edith Potter ( b. 1901-d. 1993 ) described a series of 20 cases with absent kidneys, noting the characteristic appearance of the head and lungs.
Pevek is described as the place of death of Edith Abramovna in Varlam Shalamov's short story Descendant of a Decembrist At the end of the story, the doctor, Mikhail Sergeyevich Lunin is re-instated in his original job with Dalstroy as a result of assistance from his estranged wife.
Despite trying to talk through their differences, they are unsuccessful and Edith is described as committing suicide by throwing herself into the Pevek River.
Literary critic Edith Sitwell characterized Monkey as “ a masterpiece of right sound ”, one that was “ absence of shadow, like the clearance and directness of Monkey ’ s mind .” Chinese professor David Lattimore described it as a “ minor landmark of 20th-century English translation ”, though adding that it had been overtaken as the most authoritative English edition with the publication of Anthony C. Yu ’ s four-volumes, unabridged translation published in the late 1970s and early 80s from the University of Chicago Press.
Wilton Abbey, which was dedicated to St Edith, is typically described in the later Middle Ages as " the convent of the house and church of St Editha of Wilton " or as the " monastery of St Mary and St Editha of Wilton ".
Edith Wharton used the principles described in her first book, The Decoration of Houses ( co-authored with Ogden Codman, Jr .), when she designed the house.
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