Stranded in Ethan Frome's house during a snow storm, the narrator of Edith Wharton's novel pieces together the story of his host's broken dreams. A love-triangle between Ethan, his wife Zeena, and her cousin Mattie reached a tragic crisis years before, and Ethan has been living with the consequences ever since. Set in the bleak New England town of Starkfield, Wharton's tale of disappointment and endurance is a compelling study.
Stranded in Ethan Frome's house during a snow storm, the narrator of Edith Wharton's novel pieces together the story of his host's broken dreams. A lo...
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One of Edith Wharton's most famous novels--the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize--exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. But when May's cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her failed marriage to a Polish count, her worldly and independent nature intrigues and unsettles Archer. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions that forbid a relationship with the disgraced Ellen, Archer is torn...
One of Edith Wharton's most famous novels--the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize--exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and r...
*I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas snows, peer and disappear at the will of the Atlantic cloud-drifts* A classic of travel writing, In Morocco is Edith Wharton's remarkable account of her journey to the country during World War I. With a characteristic sense of adventure, Wharton set out to explore Morocco and its people, recording her impressions and encounters. She...
*I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which...
