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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the ...Show more
Summer by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Laura Ciolkowski (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and thei ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arr ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
The Buccaneers by Edith WHARTON (and Marion MAINWARING)
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Category: Fiction
Nan and Virginia St. George have the great good luck to be born beautiful and wealthy - the two qualities prized above all others in 1870s New York - but the insurmountably bad luck to come from "new money." Shunned by the snobbish guardians of Manhattan society, the lively girls still attract many admi ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Elizabeth Wharton; Edith Wharton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. W ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Jennifer Egan (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society against whose rigid mores she often rebelled, Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn am ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more