The Glimpses of the Moon: A Bargain Marriage
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Two charming people with no money marry on the understanding that either may leave the moment a better match appears, and spend a year borrowing other people's villas and honeymooning at their expense. Wharton, first woman to win the Pulitzer, wrote this in 1922; the joke is that the arrangement works exactly as designed and neither of them can bear it. Fifty-nine plates of interiors, portraits and dinner parties, including work by Giovanni Boldini and Henry Sargent, catch the borrowed villas and social performances of the newlyweds.
Two charming people with no money marry on the understanding that either may leave the moment a better match appears, and spend a year borrowing other people's villas and honeymooning at their expense. Wharton, first woman to win the Pulitzer, wrote this in 1922; the joke is that the arrangement ...
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Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer who lived in New York and, from 1907, in France. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of Innocence (1920). Her work, which includes Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth, examines the rigid social codes of New York's upper class.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist and short story writer who lived in New York and, from 1907, in France. She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for The Age of Innocence (1920). Her work, which includes Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth, examines the rig...
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