Seven short stories from one of the most celebrated authors of the early twentieth century have been updated with an eye toward readability for modern readers. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited versions in appendices. The Hermit and the Wild Woman: One escapes from war, the other from a convent, only to find themselves together in their solitude. The Last Asset: A social-climbing mother is eager to use her daughter's wedding to her own benefit. In Trust: The dream of...
Seven short stories from one of the most celebrated authors of the early twentieth century have been updated with an eye toward readability for mod...
This novel ways narrates the drama of Lily Bart, a single woman of 29 years belonging to the upper class of society in New York that seeks economic and social stability desperately while, ironically, let numerous opportunities. The story begins in Central Station New York, where Lily just missed a train and must wait two hours to catch the next. At that time Lawrence Selden is watching, and wonders what can be doing Lily, a girl of such beauty and class in the middle of the city with an expression of confusion and indecision and what can be the purpose of their actions. Selden, attracted by...
This novel ways narrates the drama of Lily Bart, a single woman of 29 years belonging to the upper class of society in New York that seeks economic an...
Is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1920 and was awarded in 1921 with Prize Pulitzer.1 The action of the novel takes place in New York society in the 1870s. The Age of Innocence was published twice: first as a serial in the magazine Pictorial Review, July-October 1920; and later as a book by D. Appleton and Company, both in New York and London. He received a warm welcome; according to Times Book Review it was "a brilliant panorama of New York 45 years ago. The most sought novel in public libraries and a best seller in bookstores."
Is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1920 and was awarded in 1921 with Prize Pulitzer.1 The action of the novel takes place in New York society in...
n The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social...
n The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obs...
Ethan Frome is a novel that was published in 1911 by the American Pulitzer winner Edith Wharton Award. Tells the life of the character of the same name. The events take place in the New England change the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in a fictional town called Starkfield, Massachusetts. Edith Wharton Edith Jones was born in 1862. He received a marriage proposal still very young, but opposed by the perception of the fatuous and snobs laws of the Jones family well established. In 1885, at twenty years old, Edith married Edward Wharton, an older man that the Jones family considered...
Ethan Frome is a novel that was published in 1911 by the American Pulitzer winner Edith Wharton Award. Tells the life of the character of the same nam...
A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author
The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived...
A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author
A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author
The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Perhaps predictably, she married into another prosperous family when she became the wife of Bostonian, 'Teddy' Wharton in 1883. Edith's wealth opened the world to her and she became a prodigious traveller and lived...
A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author
