Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. Ethan Frome is her most famous work. Coming Home was first published in 1915. It is the story of a French soldier who takes his revenge on a barbaric German officer. The French soldier's fiancee gave herself to the German so that he will spare her...
Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded l...
Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. Ethan Frome is her most famous work. Stories in this collection include The bolted door -- His father's son -- The Daunt Diana -- The debt -- Full circle -- The legend -- The eyes -- The blond beast -- Afterward -- The letters.
Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded l...
Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. This story is about a nurse and the doctor she falls in love with. The doctor is working to reform deplorable labor conditions for the poor. The doctor desires a gentle woman from upper society who is the nurse's best friend. The society girl...
Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded l...
Set in rural, working-class New England, Ethan Frome is a man in a loveless marriage who faces the temptation of illicit passion with another woman. Revealed through the narrator's overnight visit with the mysterious figure, himself, Ethan Frome's story depicts the desperation of a man torn between his empty life and the promise of something new.
Set in rural, working-class New England, Ethan Frome is a man in a loveless marriage who faces the temptation of illicit passion with another woman. R...
The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of...
The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From t...
Ethan Frome is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton, set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of Starkfield.
Ethan Frome is a novel written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton, set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious t...
Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917. The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s.
Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917. The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. Summer has had a resurg...
The Touchstone was published in 1900 and was Edith Wharton's first published novel. Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, this is what one expects to be: A great novel, although a short one. The plot is about Stephen Glennard, who sells letters of love written by a famous author to raise money and marry his fiancee.
The Touchstone was published in 1900 and was Edith Wharton's first published novel. Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, this is wha...
