Pantalla :
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded...
Special Illustrated Edition: Features 20 beautiful Images that bring the story's opulent settings and intricate social engagements to life. Exclusive Bonus Content: Includes a comprehensive summary,...
With its gentle humour, bumbling escapades, and endearing charm, Last of the Summer Wine became a cultural phenomenon around the globe. Step into the picturesque Yorkshire countryside and prepare for...
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society...
A literary sensation when it was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century....
Set in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They devise a shrewd...
The Collected Works of Edith Wharton offers a comprehensive overview of the esteemed author's literary contributions. Known for her keen observations of upper-class society in America during the late...
Edith Wharton's 'The Age of Innocence' is a captivating novel set in 19th century New York society, exploring the themes of love, duty, and societal expectations. Wharton's writing style is eloquent and...
In Edith Wharton's novel, 'The Age of Innocence and Old New York,' the author delves into the intricate social codes and expectations of high society in 1870s New York. Wharton's elegant prose and keen...
A joyous novel of art, love, and one man’s unquenchable thirst for life, from one of America’s best loved authors. Sixty-year-old American painter Scumbler (‘Scum’ to his friends) makes a living...
A middle-aged man abandons his corporate life to follow his dream to become a painter. On the way, he develops an unlikely but beautiful relationship with an older woman. Jack is a middle-aged...
William Wharton turns his microscopic gaze on his own life to narrate and scrutinize the untimely deaths of his daughter and her family. A moving story of one man’s rage against death, and spiritual renewal....
Four novellas by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s.The four short novels in this collection are set in the New...
One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection,...
A welcome reissue of this wartime classic from the author of Birdy. During WW II, a dying American soldier, William Wiley, and his German captor, Wilhelm Klug, are miraculously rescued by a...
A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime....
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains timeless advice on writing and reading well from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize—now with a new introduction...
“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?” —Edith Wharton, The Age of InnocenceIn a society where people “dreaded scandal more than disease,” passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921...
Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from...
À Nice, au début du XXe siècle, Kate Clephane lutte pour sa survie sociale. Issue de la haute société new-yorkaise, elle vit aujourd’hui parmi les parias : tous ceux qui, comme elle, ont failli aux yeux...
En Italie, à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, le jeune Odon Valsecca, héritier présomptif du duc de Pianura, grandit dans une ferme. À la mort de son père, on l’envoie suivre à Turin l’éducation d’un aristocrate...
Tradução inédita. Edição com apresentação e notas. Obra-prima da norte-americana Edith Wharton (1862-1937), A idade da inocência foi publicada em 1920, fazendo da autora a primeira mulher a ganhar o Prêmio...
*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2024 ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD ***A GRAZIA BOOK CLUB PICK, Ghost Girl, Banana is a powerful debut novel about the family...
Nei sobborghi della città di New York, le sorelle Bunner gestiscono un piccolo negozio di sartoria e fiori finti realizzati a mano. Senza altri familiari e con una cerchia di conoscenti molto ristretta,...
Alcune donne della buona società di Hillbridge, desiderose di stare al passo con le mode del momento più che spinte da un reale interesse culturale, si preparano a ricevere la celebre scrittrice Osric...
Years ago I said to myself: "There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow." I have learned with the passing of time that this, though true, is not the whole truth. The other producer of old...
American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau and André Gide were all guests...
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man,...
A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain...
Puede que no esté disponible para la venta en tu país, sino sólo para la venta desde una cuenta en Francia.
Si la redirección no se produce automáticamente, haz clic en este enlace.
