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63-399: The Reckoning may refer to: Literature [ edit ] "The Reckoning", a 1902 short story by Edith Wharton The Reckoning , a 1905 novel by Robert W. Chambers Le Bilan Malétras , a. k. a. The Reckoning , a 1948 novel by Georges Simenon The Reckoning , a 1963 novel by Hugh Atkinson The Reckoning (Halberstam book) ,

126-456: A 1986 book by David Halberstam on the crises in the U.S. automotive industry from 1973 to the mid-1980s The Reckoning (Penman novel) , a 1991 novel by Sharon Kay Penman The Reckoning , a 1992 novel by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles The Reckoning , a 1992 novel by Ruby Jean Jensen The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe , a 1992 book by Charles Nicholl The Reckoning , a 1994 novel by James Byron Huggins The Reckoning ,

189-436: A 1996 novel by Constance Laux , writing as Connie Laux The Reckoning , a 1998 novel by Beverly Lewis The Reckoning , a 1998 novel by Patricia Robins , writing as Claire Lorrimer The Reckoning , a 1999 novel by Thomas F. Monteleone The Reckoning , a 1999 novel by Ted Allbeury The Reckoning (Long novel) , a 2004 novel by Jeff Long The Reckoning , a 2005 novel by Sarah Pinborough The Reckoning ,

252-433: A 2005 novel by Robert J. Randisi , writing as J. R. Roberts The Reckoning , a 2006 novel by Christie Ridgway The Reckoning (Armstrong novel) , a 2010 novel by Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning , a 2010 novel by Howard Owen The Reckoning , a 2011 novel by Jane Casey The Reckoning , a 2012 novel by Alma Katsu The Satyr's Curse II: The Reckoning , a 2014 novel by Alexandrea Weis The Reckoning ,

315-467: A 2011 song by The Getaway Plan "The Reckoning (How Long)", a 2010 song by Andrew Peterson from Counting Stars The Reckoning (Within Temptation song) , 2018 song "The Reckoning", a 2008 song by F5 Television [ edit ] The Reckoning (2011 TV series) , a British ITV drama "The Reckoning" (2023 TV series) , a British drama about Jimmy Savile WWA The Reckoning ,

378-643: A 2014 novel by Rennie Airth The Reckoning (Grisham novel) , a 2018 novel by John Grisham The Reckoning (Trump book) , a 2021 nonfiction book by Mary L. Trump Music [ edit ] Albums [ edit ] The Reckoning (Asaf Avidan & the Mojos album) (2008) The Reckoning (EP) , a 2006 EP by Comes with the Fall The Reckoning (Needtobreathe album) The Reckoning (Pillar album) Songs [ edit ] "The Reckoning" (Iced Earth song) "The Reckoning",

441-580: A former U.S. Open Tennis Championship runner-up who became governor of Rhode Island. At the time, Wharton described the main house as "incurably ugly.” Wharton agreed to pay $ 80,000 for the property, and she spent thousands more to alter the home's facade, decorate the interior, and landscape the grounds. In 1902, Wharton designed The Mount , her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts , which survives, today, as an example of her design principles. She wrote several of her novels there, including The House of Mirth (1905),

504-461: A memoir. In 1873, Wharton wrote a short story and gave it to her mother to read. Stinging from her mother's critique, Wharton decided to write only poetry . While she constantly sought her mother's approval and love, she rarely received either, and their relationship was a troubled one. Before she was 15, Wharton wrote Fast and Loose (1877). In her youth, she wrote about society. Her central themes came from her experiences with her parents. She

567-459: A passion for Walt Whitman . Source: Campbell, Donna M. "Works by Edith Wharton" . Washington State University . Retrieved January 22, 2018 . Source: ( Marshall 1996 , pp. 21–25) Olsen, Eric B. (2019) "Ethan Frome" Analysis In Context F5 (band) F5 was a heavy metal band based out of Phoenix, Arizona , which featured ex- Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and ex-Megadeth drummer Jimmy DeGrasso . Before F5

630-736: A poem under a pseudonym in the New York World, in 1879. In 1880, she had five poems published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly , an important literary magazine. Despite these early successes, she was not encouraged by her family or her social circle, and though she continued to write, she did not publish anything more until her poem "The Last Giustiniani" was published in Scribner's Magazine in October 1889. Between 1880 and 1890, Wharton put her writing aside to participate in

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756-410: A role-playing game from White Wolf Hunter: The Reckoning (video game) (2002) The Reckoning , an expansion for Quake 2 See also [ edit ] Dead Reckoning (disambiguation) Reckoning (disambiguation) " Reckoning Song ", a 2008 song from Asaf Avidan and the Mojos album The Reckoning Rick and Morty – The Rickoning , a 2019 graphic novel Topics referred to by

819-439: A silent film The Reckoning (1932 film) , an American crime film directed by Harry L. Fraser The Reckoning (1970 film) , a British drama film by Jack Gold The Reckoning (2004 film) , a murder-mystery film set in the medieval period The Reckoning (2014 film) , an Australian crime thriller The Reckoning (2020 film) , a British adventure horror film Gaming [ edit ] Hunter: The Reckoning ,

882-536: A story. Wharton began writing poetry and fiction as a young girl, and she attempted to write her first novel at the age of 11. Her mother's criticism quashed her ambition, however, and she turned to poetry. She was 15 years old when her first published work appeared, a translation of a German poem "Was die Steine Erzählen" ("What the Stones Tell") by Heinrich Karl Brugsch , for which she was paid $ 50. Her family did not want her name to appear in print, since writing

945-408: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edith Wharton Edith Newbold Wharton ( / ˈ hw ɔːr t ən / ; née   Jones ; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of

1008-718: Is the generously illustrated Italian Villas and Their Gardens of 1904, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish . Over the course of her life, she crossed the Atlantic 60 times. In Europe, her primary destinations were Italy, France, and England. She also went to Morocco. She wrote many books about her travels, including Italian Backgrounds and A Motor-Flight through France . Her husband, Edward Wharton, shared her love of travel and for many years, they spent at least four months of each year abroad, mainly in Italy. Their friend, Egerton Winthrop, accompanied them, on many journeys there. In 1888,

1071-457: Is what it does not tell: her criticism of Lucretia Jones [her mother], her difficulties with Teddy, and her affair with Morton Fullerton, which did not come to light until her papers, deposited in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library , were opened in 1968. On June 1, 1937, Wharton was at her French country home (shared with architect and interior decorator Ogden Codman ), where she

1134-670: The Germans invaded Belgium in the fall of 1914 and Paris was flooded with Belgian refugees, she helped to set up the American Hostels for Refugees, which managed to get them shelter, meals, and clothes, and eventually created an employment agency to help them find work. She collected more than $ 100,000 on their behalf. In early 1915, she organized the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee, which gave shelter to nearly 900 Belgian refugees who had fled, when their homes were bombed by

1197-782: The Gilded Age . In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, The Age of Innocence . She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth , the novella Ethan Frome , and several notable ghost stories. Edith Newbold Jones was born on January 24, 1862, to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander, at their brownstone at 14 West Twenty-third Street in New York City . To her friends and family, she

1260-751: The American Protestant section of the Cimetière des Gonards in Versailles, "with all the honors owed a war hero and a chevalier of the Legion of Honor ... a group of some one hundred friends sang a verse of the hymn 'O Paradise'..." Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and

1323-532: The French administration, Lyautey, and particularly, his wife. During the post-war years, she divided her time between Hyères and Provence , where she finished The Age of Innocence , in 1920. She returned to the United States only once, after the war, to receive an honorary doctorate from Yale University in 1923. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton

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1386-829: The Germans. Aided by her influential connections in the French government, she and her long-time friend, Walter Berry (then president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris), were among the few foreigners in France allowed to travel to the front lines, during World War I. She and Berry made five journeys, between February and August 1915, which Wharton described in a series of articles that were first published in Scribner's Magazine and later as Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort , which became an American bestseller. Travelling by car, Wharton and Berry drove through

1449-560: The Jones family in Europe during this time. After returning to the United States with her mother, Wharton continued her courtship with Stevens, announcing their engagement in August 1882. The month the two were to marry, the engagement ended. Wharton's mother, Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, moved back to Paris in 1883, and she lived there until her death in 1901. On April 29, 1885, at

1512-618: The Joneses " is said to refer to her father's family. She was related to the Rensselaers , the most prestigious of the old patroon families, who had received land grants from the former Dutch government of New York and New Jersey. Her father's first cousin was Caroline Schermerhorn Astor . Fort Stevens, in New York, was named for Wharton's maternal great-grandfather, Ebenezer Stevens , a Revolutionary War hero and general. Wharton

1575-671: The Whartons and their friend, James Van Alen, took a cruise through the Aegean islands . Wharton was 26. The trip cost the Whartons $ 10,000 and lasted four months. She kept a travel journal, during this trip, that was thought to be lost but was later published as The Cruise of the Vanadis , now considered her earliest known travel writing. In 1897, Edith Wharton purchased Land's End in Newport, Rhode Island, from Robert Livingston Beeckman ,

1638-604: The age of 23, Wharton married Edward Robbins (Teddy) Wharton, who was 12 years her senior, at the Trinity Chapel Complex in Manhattan. From a well-established Boston family, he was a sportsman and a gentleman of the same social class and shared her love of travel. The Whartons set up house at Pencraig Cottage in Newport. In 1893, they bought a house named Land's End, on the other side of Newport, for $ 80,000, and moved into it. Wharton decorated Land's End, with

1701-438: The business arrangements, lined up contributors, and translated the French entries into English. Theodore Roosevelt wrote a two-page introduction, in which he praised Wharton's effort and urged Americans to support the war. She also kept up her own work, continuing to write novels, short stories, and poems, as well as reporting for The New York Times and keeping up her enormous correspondence. Wharton urged Americans to support

1764-497: The displaced. She was a "heroic worker on behalf of her adopted country". On April 18, 1916, Raymond Poincaré , the then-President of France, appointed her Chevalier of the Legion of Honour , the country's highest award, in recognition of her dedication to the war effort. Her relief work included setting up workrooms for unemployed French women, organizing concerts to provide work for musicians, raising tens of thousands of dollars for

1827-580: The editors of her letters as "one of the better known failed encounters in the American literary annals.” She spoke fluent French, Italian, and German, and many of her books were published in both French and English. In 1934, Wharton's autobiography , A Backward Glance, was published. In the view of Judith E. Funston, writing on Edith Wharton in American National Biography , What is most notable about A Backward Glance, however,

1890-782: The family was at a spa in the Black Forest . After the family returned to the United States in 1872, they spent their winters in New York City and their summers in Newport, Rhode Island . While in Europe, she was educated by tutors and governesses . She rejected the standards of fashion and etiquette that were expected of young girls at the time, which were intended to allow women to marry well and to be put on display at balls and parties. She considered these fashions superficial and oppressive. Edith wanted more education than she received, so, she read from her father's library and from

1953-415: The first of many chronicles of life in old New York. At The Mount, she entertained the cream of American literary society, including her close friend, novelist Henry James , who described the estate as "a delicate French chateau mirrored in a Massachusetts pond". Although she spent many months traveling in Europe nearly every year, with her friend, Egerton Winthrop (a descendant of John Winthrop ), The Mount

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2016-551: The first woman to win the award. The three fiction judges – literary critic Stuart Pratt Sherman , literature professor Robert Morss Lovett , and novelist Hamlin Garland – voted to give the prize to Sinclair Lewis for his satire Main Street , but Columbia University's advisory board, led by conservative university president Nicholas Murray Butler , overturned their decision and awarded the prize to The Age of Innocence . Wharton

2079-737: The help of designer Ogden Codman . In 1897, the Whartons purchased their New York home, 884 Park Avenue . Between 1886 and 1897, they traveled overseas, in the period from February to June, mostly visiting Italy but also Paris and England. From her marriage onwards, three interests came to dominate Wharton's life: American houses, writing, and Italy. From the late 1880s until 1902, Teddy Wharton suffered from chronic depression. The couple, then, ceased their extensive travel. At that time, his depression became more debilitating, after which they lived almost exclusively at their estate, The Mount , in Lenox, Massachusetts. During those same years, Wharton, herself,

2142-406: The libraries of her father's friends. Her mother forbade her to read novels until she was married, and Edith obeyed this command. Wharton wrote and told stories from an early age. When her family moved to Europe and she was just four or five, she started what she called "making up." She invented stories for her family and walked with an open book, turning the pages as if reading while improvising

2205-943: The morality of the author, critiques of intellectual pretension, and the "unmasking" of the truth. Wharton's writing also explored themes of "social mores and social reform" as they relate to the "extremes and anxieties of the Gilded Age". A key recurring theme in Wharton's writing is the relationship between the house as a physical space and its relationship to its inhabitant's characteristics and emotions. Maureen Howard argues "Edith Wharton conceived of houses, dwelling places, in extended imagery of shelter and dispossession. Houses – their confinement and their theatrical possibilities ... they are never mere settings." American children's stories containing slang were forbidden in Wharton's childhood home. This included such popular authors as Mark Twain , Bret Harte , and Joel Chandler Harris . She

2268-552: The most lethal acts of revenge ever taken by a writing daughter." In her memoir, A Backward Glance , Wharton describes her mother as indolent, spendthrift, censorious, disapproving, superficial, icy, dry and ironic. Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as "social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the new elite." Maureen Howard , editor of Edith Wharton: Collected Stories , notes several recurring themes in Wharton's short stories, including confinement and attempts at freedom,

2331-445: The music video of F5's song "Dissidence". The song "Dissidence" is included on the compilation CD Unleashed 3 . In March 2013, the album was reissued exclusively on iTunes with a new bonus track, "Sleeping Giants". In 2008, F5 released their second studio album entitled The Reckoning , with Ellefson's former Megadeth band-mate Jimmy DeGrasso joining on drums after Small left in 2007, and Ryan Greene again producing. The album

2394-529: The rest of her life, spending winters and springs on the French Riviera at Sainte Claire du Vieux Chateau in Hyères . Wharton was a committed supporter of French imperialism , describing herself as a "rabid imperialist,” and the war solidified her political views. After the war, she traveled to Morocco, as the guest of Resident General Hubert Lyautey and wrote the book In Morocco , full of praise for

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2520-417: The social rituals of the New York upper classes. She keenly observed the social changes happening around her, which she later used in her writing. Wharton officially came out as a debutante to society in 1879. She was allowed to bare her shoulders and wear her hair up for the first time at a December dance, which was given by a Society matron, Anna Morton. Wharton began a courtship with Henry Leyden Stevens,

2583-457: The son of Paran Stevens, a wealthy hotelier and real estate investor from rural New Hampshire. His sister, Minnie, married Arthur Paget . The Jones family did not approve of Stevens. In the middle of her debutante season, the Jones family returned to Europe in 1881 for her father's health. In spite of this, her father, George Frederic Jones, died of a stroke in Cannes in 1882. Stevens was with

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2646-878: The war effort and encouraged America to enter the war. She wrote the popular romantic novel, Summer in 1917, the war novella, The Marne, in 1918, and A Son at the Front, in 1919 (published 1923). When the war ended, she watched the Victory Parade from the Champs Elysees' balcony of a friend's apartment. After four years of intense effort, she decided to leave Paris for the quiet of the countryside. Wharton settled 10 mi (16 km) north of Paris in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt , buying an 18th-century house on seven acres of land that she called Pavillon Colombe. She lived there, in summer and autumn, for

2709-500: The war effort, and opening tuberculosis hospitals. In 1915, Wharton edited a charity benefit volume, The Book of the Homeless , which included essays, art, poetry, and musical scores by many major contemporary European and American artists, including Henry James , Joseph Conrad , William Dean Howells , Anna de Noailles , Jean Cocteau , and Walter Gay , among others. Wharton proposed the book to her publisher, Scribner's, handled

2772-411: The war zone, viewing one devastated French village after another. She visited the trenches and was within earshot of artillery fire. She wrote, "We woke to a noise of guns closer and more incessant, and when we went out into the streets, it seemed as if, overnight, a new army had sprung out of the ground". Throughout the war, she worked in charitable efforts for refugees, the injured, the unemployed, and

2835-1074: Was allowed to read Louisa May Alcott but Wharton preferred Lewis Carroll 's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Charles Kingsley 's The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby . Wharton's mother forbade her from reading many novels and Wharton said she "read everything else but novels until the day of my marriage." Instead Wharton read the classics, philosophy, history, and poetry in her father's library including Daniel Defoe , John Milton , Thomas Carlyle , Alphonse de Lamartine , Victor Hugo , Jean Racine , Thomas Moore , Lord Byron , William Wordsworth , John Ruskin , and Washington Irving . Biographer Hermione Lee describes Wharton as having read herself "out of Old New York" and her influences included Herbert Spencer , Charles Darwin , Friedrich Nietzsche , T. H. Huxley , George Romanes , James Frazer , and Thorstein Veblen . These influenced her ethnographic style of novelization . Wharton developed

2898-556: Was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930. Wharton was friend and confidante to many prominent intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis , Jean Cocteau , and André Gide were all her guests, at one time or another. Theodore Roosevelt, Bernard Berenson , and Kenneth Clark were valued friends, as well. Particularly notable was her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald , described by

2961-452: Was at work on a revised edition of The Decoration of Houses , when she suffered a heart attack and collapsed. She died of a stroke on August 11, 1937, at Le Pavillon Colombe , her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt . She died at 5:30 p.m., but her death was not known in Paris. At her bedside was her friend, Mrs. Royall Tyler . Wharton was buried in

3024-417: Was beset with harsh literary criticism from the naturalist school of writers. In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer , an interior designer , and a taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first major published work, The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-authored by Ogden Codman . Another of her "home and garden" books

3087-580: Was born during the Civil War . However, in describing her family life, Wharton does not mention the war, except that their travels to Europe after the war were due to the depreciation of American currency. From 1866 to 1872, the Jones family visited France , Italy , Germany , and Spain . During her travels, the young Edith became fluent in French , German , and Italian . At the age of nine, she suffered from typhoid fever , which nearly killed her, while

3150-574: Was discovered, in 2017. It had a radio adaptation broadcast on BBC Radio 3, in 2018. It wouldn't be until 2023, over a century later, that the world stage premiere took place in Canada at the Shaw Festival , directed by Peter Hinton-Davis. She collaborated with Marie Tempest to write another play, but the two only completed four acts, before Marie decided she was no longer interested in costume plays. One of her earliest literary endeavors (1902)

3213-471: Was formed, David Ellefson was the bassist for thrash metal band Megadeth . But in 2002, the band dissolved due to an injury to frontman Dave Mustaine 's arm. Megadeth reformed in 2004, but Ellefson was unable to come to an agreement with Mustaine on terms for rejoining the band. Ellefson went on to produce a local band called Lifted, where he met guitarist Steve Conley and drummer Dave Small. After recruiting guitarist John Davis and vocalist Dale Steele, F5

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3276-432: Was her primary residence, until 1911. When living there and while traveling abroad, Wharton was usually driven to appointments by her longtime chauffeur and friend, Charles Cook, a native of nearby South Lee, Massachusetts . When her marriage deteriorated, she decided to move, permanently, to France, living, first, at 53 Rue de Varenne, Paris , in an apartment that belonged to George Washington Vanderbilt II . Wharton

3339-433: Was known as "Pussy Jones". She had two elder brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. Frederic married Mary Cadwalader Rawle ; their daughter was landscape architect Beatrix Farrand . Edith was baptized April 20, 1862, Easter Sunday , at Grace Church . Wharton's paternal family, the Joneses, were a very wealthy and socially prominent family, having made their money in real estate. The saying " keeping up with

3402-460: Was not considered a proper occupation for a society woman of her time. Consequently, the poem was published under the name of a friend's father, E. A. Washburn, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson , who supported women's education. In 1877, at the age of 15, she secretly wrote a novella , Fast and Loose . In 1878, her father arranged for a collection of two dozen original poems and five translations, Verses, to be privately published. Wharton published

3465-548: Was preparing to vacation for the summer, when World War I broke out. Though many fled Paris, she moved back to her Paris apartment on the Rue de Varenne and for four years, she was a tireless and ardent supporter of the French war effort. One of the first causes she undertook, in August 1914, was the opening of a workroom for unemployed women. Here, they were fed and paid one franc a day. What began, with 30 women, soon doubled, to 60 women, and their sewing business began to thrive. When

3528-433: Was published: "Mrs. Manstey's View" had very little success, and it took her more than a year to publish another story. She completed "The Fullness of Life,” following her annual European trip with Teddy. Burlingame was critical of this story, but Wharton did not want to make edits to it. This story, along with many others, speaks about her marriage. She sent Bunner Sisters to Scribner's, in 1892. Burlingame wrote back that it

3591-423: Was rejected by Burlingame, she lost confidence in herself. She started travel writing , in 1894. In 1901, Wharton wrote a two-act play called Man of Genius . This play was about an English man who was having an affair with his secretary. The play was rehearsed but was never produced. Another 1901 play, The Shadow of a Doubt , which also came close to being staged but fell through, was thought to be lost, until it

3654-637: Was released via OarFin Distribution (Koch), licensed to Nightmare Records in North America and Silverwolf Productions in Europe. A video emerged for the album's title track "The Reckoning", followed by one for an unreleased non-album cover of Fight 's "Nailed to the Gun". In 2009, drummer Jimmy DeGrasso returned to Alice Cooper 's band. In early 2010, David Ellefson left to rejoin Megadeth, leaving

3717-400: Was said to suffer from asthma and periods of depression. In 1908, Teddy Wharton's mental condition was determined to be incurable. In that year, Wharton began an affair with Morton Fullerton , an author, and foreign correspondent for The Times of London, in whom she found an intellectual partner. She divorced Edward Wharton, in 1913, after 28 years of marriage. Around the same time, she

3780-662: Was the translation of the play Es Lebe das Leben ("The Joy of Living"), by Hermann Sudermann. The Joy of Living was criticized for its title, because the heroine swallows poison, at the end, and was a short-lived Broadway production. It was, however, a successful book. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by subtle use of dramatic irony . Having grown up in upper-class, late-19th-century society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence . Versions of her mother, Lucretia Jones, often appeared in Wharton's fiction. Biographer Hermione Lee described it as "one of

3843-519: Was then formed. In 2005, F5 released their debut album A Drug for All Seasons recorded with producer Ryan Greene , who had worked with Megadeth, Bad Religion , and NOFX . The record was released worldwide in 2005 via JVC (Japan/Asia), Mascot (Europe), and Cleopatra Records (North America). F5 toured in support of the album, including opening for Staind for one tour date on the Jägermeister Music Tour in 2006. MTV premiered

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3906-406: Was too long for Scribner's to publish. This story is believed to be based on an experience she had as a child. It did not see publication until 1916, and it is included in the collection called Xingu . After a visit with her friend, Paul Bourget , she wrote "The Good May Come" and "The Lamp of Psyche.” "The Lamp of Psyche" was a comical story, with verbal wit and sorrow. After "Something Exquisite"

3969-425: Was very critical of her work and wrote public reviews criticizing it. She also wrote about her own experiences with life. "Intense Love's Utterance" is a poem written about Henry Stevens. In 1889, she sent out three poems for publication, to Scribner's , Harper's and Century . Edward L. Burlingame published "The Last Giustiniani" for Scribner's . It was not until Wharton was 29 that her first short story

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