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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
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics
Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and tha ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
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Category: History | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
EDITH WHARTON journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country.
Summer by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
A rich visitor from the city seduces a local woman, but their affair may not survive the season, in this novel by the Pulitzer-winning author of Ethan Frome. Charity Royall was taken in as a child by an educated man in a small New England town. Her origins on "the mountain"--towering in the distance an ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
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
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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 (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Edith Wharton; Judith John (Contribution by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most illustrious families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic and ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Elizabeth Wharton; Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin English Library
'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions'. A searing, shocking tale of women as consumer items in a man's world, "The House of Mirth" sees Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of ...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
The Old Maid by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics
In this short novella, set in the New York of the mid-1800s, Edith Wharton examines the constraints of a society where appearances count for more than geuine goodness.
The Old Maid by Edith Wharton; Roxana Robinson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Delia rejected passion in favor of a secure marriage but cousin Charlotte followed her own heart, even though it meant remaining unwed and giving up her baby. Charlotte's sacrifice has allowed the child, Tina, an advantageous position in New York City's fashionable society as Delia's adopted daughter. N ...Show more
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