Edith Wharton. - Libros y biografía

Tragic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. A poverty-stricken New England farmer, his ailing wife and a youthful housekeeper are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic...

The Age of Innocence won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction...

In 'Old New York' by Edith Wharton, readers are transported back to the Gilded Age of New York City through a collection of four novellas detailing the lives of the elite social circles. Wharton's meticulous...

"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 sets...

Deep dive into American literature's famous female writer with this remarkable collection of 'Selected Edith Wharton'. Detailing the lives, loves and losses of a country's people, we'll start our journey...

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...

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are two young and attractive, but penniless New Yorkers. They decide to marry, but realize their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth, taken for granted by their...

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...

Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society's games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous...

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,...

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...

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,...

'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...

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...

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...

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and...

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....

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...

Héritier élégant et cultivé, Newland Archer est l'un des meilleurs partis de New York. Chacun attend de connaître la date de son union avec la prude et ravissante May Welland, issue du même monde. La...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

« 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...

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...

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...

Lily Bart, 29 ans, fait tourner bien des têtes, et du meilleur monde. Quoique issue d'un milieu modeste, elle a toujours frayé dans la haute société. Incapable de vivre sans argent, trop honnête pour...

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