Sanctuary Classic Reprint Edith Wharton Books
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IT is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy the sensation is too nluch the result of selection and eliInination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness, letting it penneate every faculty _as a spring rain soaks into a germinating nleado"v. - - There ,vas nothing to account for this sudden sense of beatitude; but 'was it not this precisely ,vhich made it so irresistible, so overwheln1ing? There had been, within the last two months-since her engagement to Denis Peyton-no distinct addition to the sum of her happiness, and no possibility~ she "vould have affirmed, of adding perceptibly to a total already incalculable. In, vardlyand outwardly the conditions of her [ S ]
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Sanctuary Classic Reprint Edith Wharton Books
I read this book as part of my research on the time when this was published. Frankly, I thought it would probably be boring, but the plot raised multiple issues to create tension and it held my interest. I did not expect the serious ethical questions involved in the plot. For example, when a dying friend asks you to take credit for his work, should you? Is it ever right to claim someone else's work as your own?Product details
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Sanctuary Classic Reprint Edith Wharton Books Reviews
I listened to the audio book version of Sanctuary narrated by Lee Ann Howlett. Sanctuary is one of Wharton's earlier novellas, having been published in 1903. As such it does not have the polished quality of her more famous works, such as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. However, Sanctuary includes Wharton's trademark use of dramatic irony.
The story centers on Kate, who marries a man after she discovers that he is morally flawed by failing to acknowledge his now deceased brother's wife and son, thus cutting them out of their legitimate inheritance. After her husband dies and she raises her son into adulthood, the son starts displaying many of his father's flaws. Personally, I felt Kate's actions to be that of a "helicopter parent" and very uncomfortable.
Lee Ann Howlett's performance was solid, having different tones and inflections for the varying characters. Her reading pace was also good and set the proper atmosphere for the story.
In short, Sanctuary is worth reading or listening to, especially as a study into Wharton's development of life and moral struggles in her characters, which would eventually earn her a Pulitzer Prize.
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This is a slow-moving, albeit short, story about a woman who realizes that her husband-to-be is amoral, marries him anyway, and then is burdened with the fear that her son is a chip off the old block. The woman's mental state is enough to drive anyone crazy, so unless you're really wanting to be depressed, don't bother to open the cover of this one!
Although she is from another era I find her work interesting and easy to follow and would read more of her work.
After reading all these reviews, I have to ask Are any of you people mothers of sons who have faced a moral crisis and and come out on top? This booklet resonated with truth and I applaud it.
This book started off very well with the death of a woman and her unborn child and if the book had continued in the solving of this situation and had then went on to the moral value of the story about how to live your life it would have been great but it just stopped and then started on something completely unrelated and it took to the end of the book to hook up the two parts and to me it just took away from the story.
Though I typically love Edith Whartons' writing, I did not care for this novella at all, I believe this is an early work. It was extremely wordy and laborious to read, not very interesting, to me at least. Her later works are quite well written and engaging, but I found this one to be annoying.
I read this book as part of my research on the time when this was published. Frankly, I thought it would probably be boring, but the plot raised multiple issues to create tension and it held my interest. I did not expect the serious ethical questions involved in the plot. For example, when a dying friend asks you to take credit for his work, should you? Is it ever right to claim someone else's work as your own?
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