Features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life...
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On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's...
The heroine of this novel is Lily Bart, whose goal is to secure a rich husband who can sustain her lifestyle. She operates in a world where social position is important, but money can...
Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's...
Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales...
Penguin Readers Level 4: The Age of Innocence (ELT Graded Reader)...
Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton's enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought...
The Custom of the Country...
When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she...
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin...
A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. In this subtly devastating work of social criticism, Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 432, Editura: PENGUIN GROUP, Autor: Sofia Coppola, Sarah Blackwood, ISBN-13: 9780143137214, Data emiterii: 2022...
An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York's high society in the 1870s - the world Edith Wharton grew up in - The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social...
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zenia, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver...
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland...
A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called "Summer" her 'hot Ethan'...
A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high societyNewland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce...
Young Adult ELI Readers - English...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 176, Editura: Vintage Publishing, Autor: Edith Wharton, ISBN-13: 9781529985955, Data emiterii: 2026...
Charity Royall yearns to escape her dull existence in the New England backwater where she lives with her guardian. When her sexual nature is awakened, darker undercurrents in the community...
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton. 'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all...
Presents a tale about a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. She marries well above herself twice and both times fails...
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