Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon

Laetitia Nebot-Deneuville (Dublin City University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1922

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Wharton’s works can be divided into the writings set in the USA and those set in Europe where she spent more than half her life, living in France and travelling in Italy and England.

The Glimpses of the Moon

is one of her European novels, taking place both in northern Italy and France. It was a best-seller when published in 1922, although the reviews were not as positive as for Wharton’s other novels. Wharton was by then established as a very popular writer who had written

The House of Mirth

(1905),

Ethan Frome

(1911) and

The Age of Innocence

(1920), the novel that enabled her to become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature.

The Glimpses of the Moon

was therefore eagerly expected, and despite receiving mediocre reviews it was an economic success: “Aggressively…

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Citation: Nebot-Deneuville, Laetitia. "The Glimpses of the Moon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 July 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=745, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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