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...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 304, Editura: Wordsworth Editions, Autor: Edith Wharton, David Stuart Davies, ISBN-13: 9781840221640, Data emiterii: 2009...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print...
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...
Lily Bart is beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York City, but reluctant to finally commit herself to one. In an endless search for freedom and the happiness...
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...
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...
Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City. In this aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and wealth...
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin...
The Custom of the Country...
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In the luxurious, constricting world of New York's Gilded Age, Newland Archer is engaged to the conventional May Welland when Countess Ellen Olenska returns after a scandalous divorce...
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: 368, Editura: Oxford University Press, Autor: Edith Wharton, ISBN-13: 9780199538102, Data emiterii: 2008...
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...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged...
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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...
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...
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