The Glimpses of the Moon (Wharton novel)

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The Glimpses of the Moon is a 1922 novel by Edith Wharton. [1] The novel has been compared with The House of Mirth (1905) and explores concepts including marriage in the United States. [2]

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Publication

The novel was published in 1922 and reviewed for the October 1922 edition of The Atlantic Monthly by Wilson Follett. [3]

Film adaptations

The Glimpses of the Moon was made into a silent film of the same name in 1923 which is now lost. [4]

Francis Ford Coppola is due to direct a musical adaptation of the novel in 2024. [5]

Trivia

The title comes from Hamlet (I.iv). The novel is in the public domain and available on Wikisource. [6] [7]

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References

  1. Edith Wharton (1922), The glimpses of the moon, New York D. Appleton, retrieved 3 November 2017
  2. Johnson, Laura K (2001). "Edith Wharton and the Fiction of Marital Unity". MFS Modern Fiction Studies. 47 (4): 947–976. ISSN   1080-658X.
  3. Follett, Wilson (1922-10-01). "The Glimpses of the Moon". The Atlantic. ISSN   2151-9463 . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
  4. The Glimpses of the Moon (1923) . Retrieved 2024-09-22 via letterboxd.com.
  5. Collin, Robbie (2024-09-13). "Francis Ford Coppola: 'Hollywood doesn't want me any more'". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
  6. Edith Wharton (1996), The glimpses of the moon (1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.), New York Scribner Paperback Fiction, ISBN   978-0-684-82619-6
  7. Edith Wharton (1994), The glimpses of the moon (1st Collier Books ed.), New York Collier Books/Macmillan Pub. Co, retrieved 3 November 2017

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