Edith Wharton
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English
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The Age of Innocence is the haunting story of the struggle between love and duty in Gilded Age New York told through the eyes of Newland Archer and his betrothed, May Welland. A young lawyer on the rise, Newland Archer needs only a society wife to solidify his position, but finds himself torn after he meets and falls deeply in love with May's disgraced cousin, the Countess Olenska. Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, following classics like The House of...
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One of Wharton's first novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation when it was published in 1917. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James, it is now considered a classic of American and women's literature.
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1996, c1922
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1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.
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297 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Susy and Nick Lansing, a couple with good social connections but no money, find themselves living way beyond their means as they try to gain acceptance.
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
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Unabridged
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English
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A young lawyer sells a package of love letters written to him over the years by a distinquished novelist to raise money to pay for his wedding to another woman. His secret comes back to haunt him and, when he confesses to his wife, their marriage is reduced to resigned coexistence.
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1997
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303 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a womans reputation. Brittany conjures ancient cruelties, Dorset witnesses a retrospective haunting and a New York club cushions an elderly aesthete as he tells of the ghastly eyes haunting his nights....
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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This antiquarian book contains Edith Wharton's first serious novel, "The Valley of Decision." Within this text Wharton juxtaposes characters inspired by the anti-religious writings of Voltaire and Rousseau with the orthodox leaders of the day. As in many of Wharton's writings, it becomes evident that violation of societal conventions comes at a great personal cost. This seminal piece of literature would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf,...
8) War & Travel
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Deadtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Age Of Innocence. Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively. After some years it was
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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First published in 1899, "The Greater Inclination" was the first collection of short stories by Edith Wharton. It contains eight works, inducing seven short stories and a two-act play: "The Muse's Tragedy," "A Journey," "The Pelican," "Souls Belated," "A Coward," "The Twilight of the God," "A Cup of Cold Water," and "The Portrait."
12) Novels
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Library of America volume 30
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[1985]
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1328 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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The four novels in this volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy.