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Dans la banlieue de Philadelphie des années 1930, Al et Birdy sont inséparables depuis qu'ils se sont rencontrés sur les bancs de l'école. Al est athlétique, hâbleur, bagarreur. Birdy est fluet, discret,...
« 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...
A glimpse into the extraordinary world of ambulance driving from the man behind the wheel. ‘Heart-stopping, eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Sometimes painful, sometimes...
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....
An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America’s most revered authors of the 20th Century Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed...
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...
After being summoned home by the news of his mother's heart attack, John Tremont is forced to confront his own middle age. While John’s mother begins to make an astonishing recovery, his father...
When a 10-year-old boy befriends a carnival stuntman and his lion cub, he learns the true meaning of family, loyalty, love, and survival. For Dickie Kettleson, growing up during the Depression...
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 reissue of this classic World War II novel. Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve, 1944, A Midnight Clear is the story of Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs ordered to establish...
Featuring 15 Unique Illustrations Includes Summary, Characters List, and Author Biography "Ethan Frome" by the illustrious Edith Wharton is a profound and compelling narrative that dances between...
Illustrated Edition: Dive into the world of "Twilight Sleep" with 20 exquisite illustrations bringing the Jazz Age to life. Detailed Summary: Get a concise overview of the novel's captivating storyline....
Illustrated Edition: Includes 20 stunning illustrations to enhance your reading experience. Contains Summary: A concise and captivating summary to pique your interest. Character List: A detailed...
Edith Wharton, nasceu Edith Newbold Jones na cidade de Nova York, em 1862.De família rica, era fluente em francês, alemão e italiano, educação recebida de tutores particulares e aprimorada em viagens...
Desperate for money so that he may marry, Stephen Glennard sells the loves letters that a famous, recently deceased author penned to him, but when he is haunted by crippling guilt over the source of his...
His sabbatical in Europe cut abruptly short by the opening hostilities of the First World War, Charlie Durand, a professor of romance languages, finds himself caught up with a wave of Belgian refugees...
The Age of Innocence is the haunting story of the struggle between love and duty in Gilded Age New York told through the eyes of Newland Archer and his betrothed, May Welland. A young lawyer on the rise,...
Bored with her life in a small town, eighteen-year-old Charity Royall enters into a relationship with an older man, only to find herself pregnant and abandoned when he reunites with his fiancée and leaves...
Mrs. Lidcote, an American divorcée, returns to New York City from Florence to support her daughter through her own divorce and impending remarriage. Learning that divorce is no longer the societal death...
Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner have never been apart. Unmarried, the sisters fill their days making hats in their millinery shop, located on the seedy side of New York City, and their evenings quietly in...
Halston Merrick, a once vibrant and adventurous young man, has settled into a mundane life of conformity in his middle years. Upon meeting up with an old friend after a twelve year absence, Merrick reveals...
A pair of elderly New York socialites, Anson Warley and Evelina Jasper, reveal the tragedy of the decay that comes with old age. Believing that they are sharing an extravagant meal at a busy dinner party,...
Ethan Frome, a lonely and downtrodden farmer, lives alone with his sickly, judgmental wife Zeena and her cousin Mattie, who helps around the house. Ethan and Mattie have feelings for one another, but...
When Udine Spragg moves to New York from the Midwest with her family, she’s naïve to the ways of upper class society, but determined to climb the social ladder and live the kind of extravagant lifestyle...
While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic rivalry for the dashing Delphin Slade. Although Mrs. Slade admits to falsifying the letter that led to her...
An American in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, John Durham pays court to an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive. Devoutly Catholic, Fanny’s husband is...
Striking, sophisticated and witty, Lily Bart lives a life of expensive taste and civilised society in turn of the century New York. But nearing thirty and still unmarried, Lily’s place in society becomes...
Immerse yourself in the lives of the social elite with Edith Wharton’s timeless stories. The Selected Novels of Edith Wharton includes the best-known of the author’s works: The Age of Innocence, The House...
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