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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Ze ...Show more
HOUSE OF MIRTH by WHARTON EDITH
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more
Mr Jones by Edith Wharton
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Category: Horror
One of the titles in an exciting series of beloved, charming and spooky ghost stories, brought to life by legendary illustrator Seth. 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 hom ...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
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; 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 | 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
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocenceis not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, t ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Elif Batuman (Foreword by); Sarah Blackwood (Introduction by); Laura Dluzynski Quinn (Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high so ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
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 by Edith Wharton; Peter Washington (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here, she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marrie ...Show more