This week on The Literary Life Podcast we wrap up the book discussion portion of our series on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Today, Angelina and Thomas begin with chapter 22, going through the significant scenes all the way to the end of the book. They talk about the ways in which this book is an elegy, as well as the continued glimpses of “the family” as the main character. They also discuss the ways in which May shows herself to be more cunning that she pretends in contrast to...| The Literary Life
Welcome to The Literary Life Podcast and our series covering The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Angelina and Thomas open with their commonplace quotes, then begin discussing the events and characters of this section of the book. Some of the ideas they build on this week are the challenges to social conventions, the many| The Literary Life
NYRB Classics is currently running a Horror & the Supernatural Sale with around 30 titles you can choose from. I’ve only read six, but these are books I would strongly recommend: MY DEATH by Lisa Tuttle Lisa Tuttle’s My Death is a wonderfully uncanny, subversive tale of artists and creativity, identity, and the erasure of women in…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Welcome to The Literary Life Podcast and a new series featuring the book The Age of Innocence. Our hosts, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks introduce us to American Gilded Age author, Edith Wharton, the “First Lady of American Letters.” They also share their own experiences with reading Wharton’s stories, novels, and letters, as well as some background on the time period and cultural context in which she was writing. In discussing the first several chapters of this book, Angelina and T...| The Literary Life
In the past I have reviewed the TV series The Buccaneers or as I like to call it What Would Have Happened if the Austen Heroines Chose the Wrong Men. Edith Wharton wrote the book in 1937, but when she passed she was unable to complete it. In 1993, Marion Mainwaring finished the story, while […]| janeaustenrunsmylife
Where does time go? It feels like yesterday was mid May, and I told my husband that we should sell our home and move -downsize. At school, I was in the final days of the school year, and we were al…| Silvia Cachia
"Undine doesn't seem to notice how hard he works."| yirt