Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York «aristocracy» to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. This volume contains Edith Wharton'complete works: NOVELS –Fast and Loose –The Touchstone. –The...
Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton False Dawn (Parts One and Two) (The Forties), The Old Maid (Parts One and Two) (The Fifties), The Spark (The Sixties), and New Year's Day (The Seventies), revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The novellas are not directly interconnected, though certain fictional characters appear in more than one story. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of...
The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The novel is set in the 1870s, around the time Edith Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has also been invited. The book was published in 1938 in New York. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her...
Edith Wharton was born in 1862 into an aristocratic New York family. Educated by the best governesses and tutors, Wharton profited from an exceptional education. She began her writing career with short stories before moving to novels. Collected in «Ethan Frome and Selected Stories,» are the best of both. In her 1911 novel «Ethan Frome» a young engineer on assignment in a small New England town becomes fascinated by the deformed and troubled local Ethan Frome. This fascination leads him on a...
Set in rural New England, «Ethan Frome» is the story of its title character who marries Zenobia, a nagging hypochondriac of a woman, and finds himself trapped in an unfulfilling life. When Zenobia's young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, Frome falls in love with her. «Ethan Frome» is the story of forbidden love and its tragic consequences. In «Summer» we have the story of the sexual awakening of a young woman, Charity Royall. Charity, the daughter of mountain moonshiners, is...
The Essential Edith Wharton Collection, all in one book:<br><br>Sanctuary <br>The Fruit of the Tree <br>The Glimpses of the Moon <br>The Greater Inclination <br>The House of Mirth <br>Ethan Frome <br>The Age of Innocence <br>In Morocco
Read the American classic in English and French. This novella follows a family whose temperament reflects that of the New England countryside around them: cold, empty, seemingly without end. Odéon Bilingue makes reading in two languages fun and simple. All paragraphs are numbered and appropriately placed side-by-side. Save for a few exceptions, all paragraphs begin and end on the same page, thus eliminating unnecessary page-flipping.
Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage. However, her life takes an unexpected twist when a nasty bit of gossip instigates her long descent down the social ladder. With her reputation plummeting, Lily escapes the city by joining an acquaintance on a European cruise. But this, too, causes irreparable damage...
Knyga apie meilę XIX amžiaus pabaiga. Niujorkas. Mitais apipintas laikas – „nekaltybės amžius“. Kupinas draudimų ir veidmainystės, bet skatinęs atidžiai įsiklausyti į save ir į kitą žmogų. Niulandas Arčeris, turtingos ir garbingos Niujorko šeimos atžala, rengiasi vesti visais atžvilgiais jam tinkamą nuotaką, gražuolę Mėją Veland. Planus sujaukia iš Europos sugrįžusi Mėjos pusseserė grafienė Elena Olenska. Netikėtai įsiplieskia neįmanoma aistra, Niulandą drasko prieštaringi jausmai: meilė...