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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome

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Englisch
34706 Wörter
Ab 8 Jahren
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Ethan Frome is a novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. The narrator tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The first chapter opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield. He sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local figure named Ethan Frome, a man who had been injured in a horrific “smash-up” twenty-four years before. Frome is described as “the most striking figure in Starkfield”, “the ruin of a man” with a “careless powerful look…in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain”. The narrator fails to get many details from the townspeople. However, the narrator hires Frome as his driver for a week. A severe snowstorm forces Frome to take the narrator to his home one night for shelter. Just as the two are entering Frome's house, the first chapter ends. The second chapter flashes back twenty-four years; the narration switches from the first-person narrator of the first chapter to a limited third-person narrator. Ethan is waiting outside a church dance for Mattie, his wife’s cousin, who lives with Ethan and his wife Zeena (Zenobia) to help around the house since Zeena is sickly. Mattie is given the occasional night off to entertain herself in town as partial recompense for taking care of the Frome family without pay, and Ethan has fallen into the habit of walking her home. It is made clear that Ethan has deep feelings for Mattie, and it is equally clear that Zeena suspects these feelings and does not approve. [mehr]

Stichwörter: ethan frome, edith wharton, romance and tragedy, american literature, historic fiction, pulitzer prize winner

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (Unabriged)

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Englisch
101260 Wörter
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146
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for her earlier novel, The House of Mirth, which was more brutal and critical. The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail regarding the way of life of the upper caste. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the 19th-century East Coast American upper class lived,and this, combined with the social tragedy, earned Wharton a Pulitzer Prize—the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman. Edith Wharton was 58 years old at publication; she had lived in that world and had seen it change dramatically by the end of World War I.The title is an ironic comment on the polished outward manners of New York society when compared to its inward machinations. [mehr]

Stichwörter: the age of innocence, edith wharton, pulitzer prize winner, american literature, american history, historical fiction

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Rev. Dr. Karen Adrien Osbey Atkins, PhD. 2014 Russia President Nobel Peace Prize Winner Vladimir Putin.

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Englisch
745 Wörter
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To take military action without Security Council authorization' is unacceptable -Putin. In a lengthy piece titled 'A Plea for Caution from Russia', the Vladimir Putin reminded that the United Nations was created as a universal instrument of preventing devastating wars. "No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization." [mehr]

Stichwörter: No Military Action

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Yoola The Winner

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
1042 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
281
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Peter Marquardt Der verpasste Pulitzer-Preis

Ein Drabble

Literaturkritik
Deutsch
108 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
167
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Ein Drabble, genau einhundert Worte, wenigstens ansatzweise einen Sinn und die Frage: »Warum tut wer solches?«, soll dieses [mehr]

Stichwörter: Drabble

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Barry Rachin The Prize

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Englisch
3654 Wörter
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Alexis Hamilton’s love life closely mirrors the comedy of errors in the E.M. Forster classic, A Room with [mehr]

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Danielle Nimmo The Prize

Essay
Englisch
1 Wörter
Ab 10 Jahren
177
1

She has trained for this race for ages, will she be able to win first prize in the [mehr]

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Angelika Serafin Gladiator's Prize

Gladiator, Lady

Liebe
Englisch
1092 Wörter
Ab 14 Jahren
318
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Octavia the daughter of the cesar of the Roman Empire, falls under the spell of a Gladiator named Septimus. Although trying to stay away she can't, both being pulled into each arms all they want to do is be together but Septimus must fight in the arena to survive. Octavia finds a way to give Septimus's freedom back but to do this she must sacrifice herself in the progress. With the harizon looking dark for both of them will they find a way to survie and find a way to be together or will the gods seperate them. [mehr]

Stichwörter: Gladiator, forbiden, love, fight, survive, sacrifice, marriage, hate

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