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The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton; Introduction by Cynthia Wolff; Notes by Laura Quinn
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Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton
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A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's
love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest
authors of her age Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young,
attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and
decide to marry, but they realise their chances of happiness are
slim without the wealth and status that their more privileged
friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate whenever
either encounters a more eligible proposition. However, as they
honeymoon in friends' lavish houses, from a villa on Lake Como to a
Venetian palace, jealous passions and troubled consciences cause
the idyll to crumble. In this beautiful novel, Edith Wharton
perceptively describes the seductions and temptations of high
society with all her trademark wit and irony.
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton; Introduction by Jessie Gaynor
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Susy Branch and Nick Lansing are typical Wharton heroes: popular,
attractive, and much poorer than their “international setâ€
friends. Like Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, the two depend on
the largesse of more privileged acquaintances to get by.
Recognizing in each other a desire for the finer things in life,
they decide to get married and, knowing that their friends will
happily provide fabulous accommodations, live rent-free on an
extended honeymoon until either one of them finds a better
match—at which point they will amicably divorce and sail off into
their separate, wealthier sunsets. Â But a romantic tour of
Europe can confuse even the most mercenary hearts. And when a
friend asks for a favor in exchange for the use of her palazzo,
Susy and Nick realize that everything in this sophisticated world
comes at a price: one that their hearts and consciences may no
longer allow them to pay. . . Â
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essential classics. 'I want - I want somehow to get away with you
into a world where words like that - categories like that - won't
exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each
other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on
earth will matter.' Newland Archer, a successful and charming young
lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite,
upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to
the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment guarantees
his place in this rigid world of the elite. However, the arrival of
May's cousin, the exotic and beautiful European Countess Olenska
throws Newland's life upside down. A divorcee, Olenska is
ostracised by those around her, yet Newland is fiercely drawn to
her wit, determination and willingness to flout convention. With
the Countess, Newland is freed from the limitations that surround
him and truly begins to 'feel' for the first time. Wharton's subtle
expose of the manners and etiquette of 1870s New York society is
both comedic, subtle, satirical and cynical in style and paints an
evocative picture of a man torn between his passion and his
obligation.
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary success as an adult. Beautifully depicted are her friendships with many of the most celebrated artists and writers of her day, including her close friend Henry James. In his introduction to this edition, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels." It is a memoir that will charm and fascinate all readers of Wharton's fiction.
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best-loved, essential classics. 'Do you remember what you said to
me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did
love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.'
Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living in New York City,
relies on beauty and charm to ensure economic survival. Determined
to marry into wealth to support her expensive lifestyle, Lily
denies her feelings for Lawrence Stern due to his modest income.
She turns instead towards young millionaire, Percy Grace. During
her pursuit of money and status, Lily becomes the agent of her own
undoing. Events take a tragic turn and her reputation is ruined by
scandal. She is unwilling to adhere to the standards of New York's
social elitism, which leads to devastating consequences. Wharton's
stunning and disturbing commentary on the role of women in this
irresponsible, hedonistic society will delight those enchanted by
her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Age of Innocence'.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of
Innocence depicts with masterful irony and nostalgic detail a
vanished world-the glittering, elite society of "Gilded Age" New
York-at the height of its power and on the brink of its demise.
When Newland Archer's comfortable future is thrown into uncertainty
by the arrival of the brazenly unconventional Ellen Olenska, subtle
consequences unfold as Wharton's characters navigate conflicts of
passion and propriety, demonstrating the genius of a great American
novelist "at the top of her game" (Ta-Nehisi Coates).
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The Buccaneers (Paperback)
Edith Wharton; Assisted by Marion Mainwaring
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Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of
Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls
denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is
too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls
sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find
their beauty charming--and their wealth extremely useful.
After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor
said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would
doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of
Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring
has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis.
It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic
reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St.
George and guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English
aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their
societies.
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Virginia's Sisters (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anna Akhmatova, Marina TSvetaeva, Gabriela Mistral, …
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A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist
contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work,
discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of
the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers
Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall,
Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and
Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters'
from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international
array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in
Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania,
Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
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Summer (Hardcover)
Edith Wharton
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions
of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest
writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take
us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England
to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on
the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and
printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile
cloth and stamped with foil. A novella regarded by Edith Wharton as
one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual
passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush
summer in rural Massachusetts. A sensation on first publication,
its honest depiction of a young woman attempting to live on her own
terms remains as vital today as it was in 1917.
A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this
literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most
important American writers in the twentieth century-now with a new
introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan.
Wharton's first literary success-a devastatingly accurate portrait
of New York's aristocracy at the turn of the century-is considered
by many to be her most important novel, and Lily Bart, her most
unforgettable character. Impoverished but well-born, the beautiful
and beguiling Lily realizes a secure future depends on her
acquiring a wealthy husband. But with her romantic indiscretion,
gambling debts, and a maelstrom of social disasters, Lily's
ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of society ultimately
leads to her downfall. From the conventionality of old New York to
the forced society of the French Riviera, Wharton weaves a
brilliantly satiric yet sensitive exploration of manners and
morality. The House of Mirth reveals Wharton's unparalleled gifts
as a storyteller and her clear-eyed observations of the savagery
beneath the well-bred surface of high society.
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Paperback)
Edith Wharton; Selected by David Stuart Davies; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. 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 filled with spirits
beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming
not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she
was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and
imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this
unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her
mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural
treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer
bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's
reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight
hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters
from his dead wife; and the frightening power of a doppelganger
which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling, rich and strange,
the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured
and grown more potent with the passing years.
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Mr Jones (Paperback)
Edith Wharton; Illustrated by Seth
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One of the titles in an exciting series of beloved, charming and
spooky ghost stories, brought to life by legendary comic book
illustrator Seth. 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
hasn't reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she's told
dislikes her changes, yet never seems able to be found.
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A Son at the Front (Paperback)
Edith Wharton; Edited by Julie Olin-Ammentorp
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'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the
Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton
offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as
well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The
painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son,
George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a
wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton
resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is
ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born
in France, to report for military service despite his parents'
belief that he should be exempted. Reflecting Wharton's own
experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak
of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the
terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the
United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the
realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the
post-war period, standing as not only an important part of
Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First
World War.
The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the
editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes
selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period
about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working
Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social
thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and
Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn
of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles
Dana Gibson's precautionary piece "Marrying for Money" (including
four Gibson drawings) and a tableau vivant of "The Dying
Gladiator."
Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel
and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent
Bell, Louis Auchincloss, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, R. W. B. Lewis,
Elaine Showalter, and Elizabeth Ammons.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms of stately brownstones, and society people "who dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to many the docile May Welland. Then, suddenly, the mysterious, intensely nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a long absence, turning Archer's world upside down. This classic Wharton tale of thwarted love is an exuberantly comic and profoundly moving look at the passions of the human heart, as well as a literary achievement of the highest order.
First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands of his farm and his tyrannical, sickly wife, Zeena, and driven by his star-crossed love for Zeena's young cousin, Mattie Silver. "In its spare, chilling creation of rural isolation, hardscrabble poverty and wintry landscape," writes Alfred Kazin in his afterword, "Ethan Frome overwhelms the reader as a drama of irresistible necessity." An exemplary work of literary realism in setting and character, Ethan Frome stands as one of the great classics of twentieth-century American literature.
The four short novels in this collection by the author of The Age of Innocence are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each one revealing the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is uniquely Edith Wharton's. Originally published in 1924 and long out of print, these tales are vintage Wharton, dealing boldly with such themes as infidelity, illegitimacy, jealousy, the class system, and the condition of women in society. Included in this remarkable quartet are False Dawn, which concerns the stormy relationship between a domineering father and his son; The Old Maid, the best known of the four, in which a young woman's secret illegitimate child is adopted by her best friend -- with devastating results; The Spark, about a young man's moral rehabilitation, which is "sparked" by a chance encounter with Walt Whitman; and New Year's Day, an O. Henryesque tale of a married woman suspected of adultery. Old New York is Wharton at her finest.
A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her short fiction is collected here in Roman Fever and Other Stories. From her picture of erotic love and illegitimacy in the title story to her exploration of the aftermath of divorce detailed in "Souls Belated" and "The Last Asset," Wharton shows her usual skill "in dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social restrictions," as Cynthia Griffin Wolff writes in her introduction. Roman Fever and Other Stories is a surprisingly contemporary volume of stories by one of our most enduring writers.
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