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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...
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...
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton is a brutal coming-of-age story that takes place in post-revolutionary Paris. The heroine, Countess Olenska, is a Polish countess who has married an American,...
"Xingu" by Edith Wharton offers a sharp, satirical glimpse into the pretensions of high society and intellectual elitism. The story centers on a group of self-proclaimed cultured women belonging to the...
Edith Wharton's Kerfol is a story of young love and how it can be thwarted by the power of money. Oliver and Jane never anticipated that their love would be tested by the injustices of class and gender....
Edith Wharton's novella, The Descent of Man is a symbolically laden literary work exploring the societal ills of capitalist America at the turn of the twentieth century. The work centers around two families...
Nora Frenway settled down furtively in her corner of the Pullman and, as the express plunged out of the Grand Central Station, wondered at herself for being where she was. The porter came along. "Ticket?"...
I did not recognise Mrs. Stephen Glenn when I first saw her on the deck of the Scythian. The voyage was more than half over, and we were counting on Cherbourg within forty-eight hours, when she appeared...
YOU idiot!” said his wife, and threw down her cards. I turned my head away quickly, to avoid seeing Hayley Delane’s face; though why I wished to avoid it I could not have told you, much less why I should...
Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's...
Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.[1] Wharton combined her insider's...
IN the surgical ward of the Hope Hospital at Hanaford, a nurse was bending over a young man whose bandaged right hand and arm lay stretched along the bed. His head stirred uneasily, and slipping her arm...
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...
This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Edith Wharton, the feminism of a Pulitzer Prize winner First published in 1899, “The Greater Inclination” was the earliest collection of...
This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Edith Wharton, the feminism of a Pulitzer Prize winner First published in 1900, "The Touchstone" was American writer Edith Wharton’s first...
Archer, già fidanzato con May, s’innamora profondamente di Ellen, moglie separata di un corrotto conte polacco. Ellen è una donna che ha deciso di vivere libera e non viene accettata in una società estremamente...
This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Edith Wharton, the feminism of a Pulitzer Prize winner Originally published in 1912, "The Reef" is a novel by American writer Edith Wharton...
This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.
The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of 'twilight sleep' they can devise or procure. And though the characters and...
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...
The Valley of Decision, is one of her most important and distinguished novels, yet it has received relatively little (and mostly superficial) attention, in spite of its initial popularity. Set in northern...
The Bunner Sisters (1892) takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and...
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