❞ قصة The Age of Innocence ❝ ⏤ Edith Wharton

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(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

The Age of Innocence
I ventured to choose The Age oflnnocence as a kind of retrospectíve
prologue to our discussions. Edith Wharton, bom in 1862, belonged to
a middle generation between, on the one hand, Henry James and
William Dean Howells, and on the other, most of the novelists of the
twenties whom we shall be discussing. The Age of Innocence won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1921, the year after it appeared, in competition with
Sinclair Lewis' Main Street. And even then it was of course very much
of a period piece. Most of it takes place during the 1870's, with the last
chapter, the epilogue, taking place just after the tum of the century.
Edith Wharton had gone through the various stages of her upperclass girlhood in oíd New York; had made her social debut, and then
liberated herself to begin her career, to Uve abroad mostly and to
become in her later years a Grande Dame of American letters. She had
been alerted to her subject by Henry James, and let me read you the
advice from James' letter. The Jamesian characteristics that you notice
in his literary style are even more prominent when he writes in his
own person