Edith Wharton - Libros y biografía

Trois récits, parmi lesquels Beatrice Palmato, un fragment érotique inédit retrouvé en 2001. A sa lumière, les deux nouvelles qui complètent ce recueil, L'ermite et la sauvageonne et Le prétexte, révèlent...

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Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Edith Wharton’s controversial novel Summer is the story of Charity Royall, an ambitious young woman trapped in a stifling small town by both...

"Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?" An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supernatural. Afterwards,...

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. Upperclass New York gentleman Newland Archer is set to wed May Welland in a pictureperfect union when the bride’s cousin, Ellen Olenska, returns...

"Se il ricorso della data è più di una semplice coincidenza - e per quanto mi riguarda ne sono certo - se ne deve arguire che la strana donna comparsa per due volte lungo il viale nel giorno della vigilia...

Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been...

"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator...

In the opulent world of New York's elite, Undine Spragg, a captivating beauty, embarks on a relentless pursuit of wealth and status. As she navigates the treacherous waters of high society, her ambition...

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old...

Witty socialite Lily Bart has expensive tastes. Unfortunately, she does not have the social status to match. So far she has managed to get by on ‘old money’ and has become accustomed to a certain level...

A bestseller when it was originally published nearly a century ago, Wharton's first literary success was set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable, turn-of-the-century New York society,...

Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world – the Gilded...

Plongez au coeur d'un véritable triangle amoureux dans la haute société new-yorkaise de la Belle Epoque et découvrez la plume moderne d'une grande romancière américaine, première femme à remporter le...

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early twentieth-century New York.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library;...

Edition enrichie (présentation, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie)Les fantômes whartoniens se glissent dans ces interstices de silence oppressant, minéral ou granitique, dans « ce trou, béant,...

« Faites New York ! », telle est l’injonction qu’adresse, dès 1902, Henry James, son mentor et ami, à Edith Wharton. Avec L’Âge de l’innocence, prix Pulitzer en 1921, la romancière y répond de façon magistrale...

Lily Bart, orpheline ruinée, cherche désespérément à faire un beau mariage pour assurer sa position sociale. Cependant, difficile de naviguer dans les courants traîtres d’un monde fondé sur les apparences....

« Il était caractéristique de sa part de garder de ses échecs un souvenir aussi aigu que de ses triomphes, et un désir passionné de les “rattraper”, qui comptait toujours parmi les motifs obscurs de sa...

Edith Wharton adorait la France et aimait aussi beaucoup les voyages en voiture. Avec son mari Teddy, entre 1906 et 1907, c’est dans une Panhard et Levassor 15hp achetée d’occasion à Londres qu’ils effectuent...

Kate Clephane has lived in exile in France since leaving her husband and infant daughter. She is being called back to New York by her now adult daughter to attend her daughter’s wedding. Complicating...

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York—now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Tóibín for the novel’s...

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York—now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Tóibín for the novel’s...

The events in 'Old New York' are set in the same New York as Wharton’s 'The Age of Innocence', making this a prequel. In 'Old New York' Wharton once again explores the manners and morals of 19th century...

'A Son at the Front' is Edith Wharton’s extremely personal novel about love, loss, and the intersection of war and art. It’s a powerful, moving portrait of empathy and loss. One of Wharton’s very best...

Deux classiques de la célèbre romancière : Ethan Frome, devenu un classique de la littérature américaine, et Été, considéré par Joseph Conrad comme le plus beau roman d'Edith Wharton.Deux classiques de...

Dans la bonne société new-yorkaise de la fin du XIXe siècle, où les conventions sociales sont sacro-saintes et où règne la quête permanente du "bon ton", le jeune Newland Archer s’apprête à épouser la...

Les montagnes du Massachusetts à la fin du XIXe siècle. Ethan Frome est un jeune homme pauvre qui aime les livres et rêve de voyages. Il a hérité d'une ferme et d'une scierie qui ne rapportent rien, épousé...

Édition enrichie (Préface, notes, chronologie et bibliographie)Un après-midi de septembre, à la gare de New York, Mr Selden rencontre par hasard Miss Lily Bart ; elle vient de manquer le train qui devait...

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