The Glimpses of the Moon (Wharton novel)

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

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]

Cover for the first edition

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 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

See also

• 1920s
• 1922 in literature
• The Age of Innocence (1920)
• American literature