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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
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
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 A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of th ...Show more
The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
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 A Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Jennifer Egan (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
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: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. ...Show more
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
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Category: Reference Literature
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various ...Show more
Three Novels of New York by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics
This title includes three beloved novels by Edith Wharton, in a couture-inspired Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition designed by a fashion illustrator for Alexander McQueen. This edition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth in 2012. "The House of Mirth": Nineteen year old Lily Bart is i ...Show more