Edith Wharton Frases famosas
“Há duas maneiras de espalhar a luz: ser a vela, ou o espelho que a reflete.”
Edith Wharton livro Ethan Frome
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it".
Ethan Frome - Página vii, Edith Wharton - EMC/Paradigm Pub., 1998, ISBN 0821916491, 9780821916490 - 128 páginas
“Ele desejava-a tal como ela era e não como ela gostaria de ter sido.”
that he wanted her as she was, and not as she would have liked to be
The roof: a novel - Página 121, Edith Wharton - Syndicate pub. co., 1912 - 366 páginas
Edith Wharton: Frases em inglês
“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”
The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I
Sanctuary http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/snctr10.txt, (1903) part II, ch. IV
Letter to Barrett Wendell (19 July 1919)
Fonte: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 3
"A First Word" <br class="br"> A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)
“The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Fonte: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 34
Fonte: A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934), Ch. 8
Edith Wharton livro The House of Mirth
"The House of Mirth" http://www.readprint.com/chapter-10542/The-House-of-Mirth-Edith-Wharton (1905), bk. 1, ch. 6
Letter to John Hugh Smith (12 February 1909), published in The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)
“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”
"The Other Two," ch. 1, from The Descent of Man and Other Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/tdmos10.txt (1904)
