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The Glimpses of the Moon (Wharton novel)

For the novel by Edmund Crispin, see The Glimpses of the Moon (Crispin novel).

Cover for the first edition

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]

Publication

Interior cover

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]

References

  1. ^ Edith Wharton (1922), The glimpses of the moon, New York D. Appleton, retrieved November 3, 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 (October 1, 1922). "The Glimpses of the Moon". The Atlantic. ISSN 2151-9463. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
  4. ^ The Glimpses of the Moon (1923). Retrieved September 22, 2024 – via letterboxd.com.
  5. ^ Collin, Robbie (September 13, 2024). "Francis Ford Coppola: 'Hollywood doesn't want me any more'". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
  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 November 3, 2017

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