
The Glimpses of the Moon
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Narrated by:
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Kate Harper
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By:
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Edith Wharton
However, as they honeymoon in friends' lavish houses, from a villa on Lake Como to a Venetian palace, jealous passions and troubled consciences cause the idyll to crumble.
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The theme and the characters are familar enough, and you can think of it as the light comedy version of the House of Mirth. However, there is very little meat in terms of character development and social critique, which were both so powerful in her more well-known work. It seems to me that Wharton’s sentiment has gotten in the way, and in wishing to give her characters a happy ending, she has lost her touch on this one. If you want a serious examination of marraige, money and society, you will be disappointed. If you want a lighthearted romantic comedy, you will find a very tame one, almost boring.
Cute story, but not a masterpiece
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A Wonderful Discovery For Wharton Fans
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Uplifting delightful novel
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A Bon Bon
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To be so rich as to be care free or just create it
Great love story
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It was a fun and interesting read.
Pleasant Read
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'The Age of Innocence' is one of my favorite novels, and I'm even pretty fond of 'The House of Mirth' right up until that miserable ending, so I was excited to get into this novel, which I've heard to be lauded as Wharton's masterpiece of the Roaring 20's. 'The Glimpses of the Moon' wasn't exactly disappointing. The characters are lively and sharply drawn, and this is pretty satisfying on a level that enjoys a good romance novel.
Besides the muppet voices, though, I think that my problem with this book is that I've seen this story way too many times. Girls were taking their futures into their own hands, but still letting their silly little hearts get in the way. Maybe in those days, it was fresh and exciting to suggest that a woman might enter into a sham marriage for business reasons, only to fall in love with her husband when it's seemingly too late. 90 years later, this is just about exactly the plot of movies like 'The Engagement' and 'The Wedding Date." Edith Wharton's version is at least more interesting, in that its' characters have more depth, and it wasn't so simple for me to figure out what choice I wanted the two protagonists to make in the end.
Speaking of the end, without giving away any spoilers, the last 30 seconds may have been my favorite part. Good ol' Edith Wharton really came a long way in the art of ending a story with a balance of subtle symbolism, realism and a that's-a-wrap-but-what-could-possibly-come-next? that keeps me, the reader, coming back for more.
Anyway, this book presents an interesting viewpoint that won't seem satisfying to today's feminists or yesterday's moralists: essentially, you CAN'T have it all, and trying to do so with your smarts will only complicate the matter.
Not my favorite performance
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A nice antidote to House of Mirth
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Perfection
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Loved this. What a writer.
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