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Edith Wharton
Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness…
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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…
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The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy…
Wharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola –
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No one working on Wharton today places her so accurately as Nowlin. – Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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A novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush…
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Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York…
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Rich and strange, these stories reveal a seductive and little-known aspect of this superb classic writer.
When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn't…
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Rich and strange, these stories reveal a seductive and little-known aspect of this superb writer.
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Agnes Zsofia Kovacs
It focuses on Wharton's symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how allusions to travel writing and art history influenced her representations of spaces. How the shock…
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Presents a tale about a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn’t know it. She marries well above herself twice and both times…
A Motor-Flight Through France, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at…
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"Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses" by Edith Wharton is a collection of poetry that transcends the boundaries of the page, immersing readers in the timeless and evocative world crafted…
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Age of Innocence," delves into forbidden romance amid the societal constraints of Gilded Age New York.
"The Custom of the Country" by Edith Wharton is a scathing social critique and a compelling exploration of the Gilded Age's high society in early twentieth-century America. The novel revolves…
The collection of short stories "The Descent of Man and Other Stories" was authored by Edith Wharton, a well-known American writer recognized for her examination of marriage, love, and social…
The book "The Glimpses of the Moon" is a novel written by Edith Wharton. The whole story is surrounded by the main characters Susy Branch and nick Lasning, a young…
Out of print for many years, this new issue of The Writing of Fiction –Edith Wharton’s candid, incisive work on constructing a short story and a novel–is a perennial favorite…
Penniless and unable to marry the woman he loves, the financially struggling lawyer Stephen Glennard discovers a way out of his predicaments by selling love letters written to him by…
Ethan Frome is a poignant story set in the bleak, wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts. It follows Ethan Frome, a man marked by a past accident, which the narrator, a…
"Embark on a captivating journey through the enchanting landscapes of Italy with Edith Wharton in 'Italian Villas and Their Gardens.' Penned in the early 20th century, this travel narrative offers…
"The Greater Inclination" by Edith Wharton is a collection of short story masterpieces that epitomize the essence of American literature classics. As one of Wharton's notable works, this anthology delves…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co…
A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age.
Nick Lansing and…
Perseus
Although Edith Wharton is best known for her novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, this extensive collection of her short fiction shows her to be a…
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The Age of Innocence is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that captures the essence of New York's Gilded Age.
A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high society
Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his…
Salem Press
This volume will examine a wide range of Whartons works, from her major novels The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence to her…
Margaret B. McDowell
Covers Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton (1862–1937).
Hermione Lee
From the award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather comes a brilliant, long-awaited reexamination of an iconic American woman of letters. Lucid and acute … with a thoroughness no…
Robert Morss Lovett
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Katherine Joslin
This study considers Wharton’s fiction as a reaction against both the male pastoral romance and the female domestic novel. It argues that her novels are concerned with the bond that…
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Susy Branch and Nick Lansing are typical Wharton heroes: popular, attractive, and much poorer than their 'international set' friends. Like Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, the two depend…
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Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie’s vivacious cousin enters their household as…
A pocket hardback edition of Edith Wharton’s classic novel of New York society and its reliance on wealth and status.
Cornelia Brooke Gilder
In 1900, Edith Wharton burst into the settled summer colony of Lenox. An aspiring novelist in her thirties, she was already a ferocious aesthete and intellect. She and her husband…
Lev Raphael
A Nick Hoffman / Academic Mystery, Book 2 - Nick Hoffman, desperate to get tenure, has been saddled with a thankless task: coordinating a conference on Edith Wharton that will…
Claudine Lesage
From French scholar and author Claudine Lesage, comes Edith Wharton in France, an examination of Wharton’s years (1907-1937) in France. Lesage, with her innate knowledge of French culture, uses previously…
Richard Guy Wilson
At once a leader and a recorder of the glamorous Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton is at the pinnacle of American literature and social history. The Mount, her summer cottage…
Author of renowned works including The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton was one of America’s most popular and prolific writers. Bringing together a team of international scholars, this text provides…
E. Harden
Illuminating the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context, this account provides an invaluable insight into the personal and professional life of…
Published in 1917, Summer is a story of love, romance and sensuality. It follows the life of a young American female from New England named Charity Royall who was born…
The Touchstone is a novella by the American writer and novelist Edith Wharton that follows the story of the lawyer Stephen Glennard. In the beginning of the narrative, Glennard finds…
Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, was also a transnational…
