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Edith Warthon (1862-1937) "Cette histoire, c’est brin à brin, et par maintes gens, qu’elle m’a été contée. Et, comme il arrive d’habitude en pareil cas, j’ai entendu chaque fois une version nouvelle. Si vous connaissez Starkfield, bourgade perdue dans la partie...
Sept femmes, traquant la culture et l’érudition, forment le très sélectif Lunch Club de la bourgade d’Hillbrigde de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Celles-ci se préparent à accueillir une célèbre auteure durant l’une de leur petite séance régulière. Mais la rencontre ne se...
« Mme Edith Wharton aime la France comme une patrie élue, cela est certain, mais elle la juge avec fermeté ; elle ne se laisse aller à l’enthousiasme qu’à bon escient, et non sans nous avoir dit, tendrement, d’ailleurs, mais nous avoir dit, quelques-uns de nos défauts,...
" Peu de vices sont plus difficiles à éradiquer que ceux qui sont généralement considérés comme des vertus. Le premier d'entre eux est celui de la lecture." Dans ce texte paru en 1903 dans une revue littéraire américaine, la romancière Edith Wharton (1862-1937) dénonce...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics Line. The Age of...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 5 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 15 minutes "Summer" is a novel by Edith...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 6 minutes "Ethan Frome" is a novel by...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 12 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 25 minutes "The House of Mirth" is a novel...
Set in turn-of-the-century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel The Age of Innocence reveals a society governed by the dictates of taste and form, manners and morals, and intricate social ceremonies. Newland Archer, soon to marry the lovely May Welland, is a man...
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.Introducing...
Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a...
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a...
On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.
Twilight Sleep (1927) is a sharp social satire by Edith Wharton that captures the restless energy and contradictions of 1920s America. The story follows the Manfred family, whose privileged lives revolve around wealth, fashion, parties, and the pursuit of quick fixes...
Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920) is a timeless novel of love, duty, and the unspoken rules of society. Set in the glittering world of New York’s upper class during the 1870s, it explores the tension between individual passion and the rigid expectations of a...
Edith Wharton’s Old New York (1924) is a masterful cycle of four novellas that vividly reconstruct the manners, morals, and hidden dramas of New York society across the nineteenth century. With her keen eye for detail and unflinching honesty, Wharton explores the rigid...
My New York! is a rich anthology that celebrates the vibrant and multifaceted world of New York City through twenty timeless novels and stories. This collection brings together some of the most evocative works of literature, offering readers a journey through the city's...
The Stories about New York is a captivating collection of short stories by Edith Wharton, offering a vivid exploration of New York society at the turn of the 20th century. Known for her keen social commentary and richly drawn characters, Wharton delves into the lives of...
«The Age of Innocence» tells the story of a forthcoming society wedding, and the threat to the happy couple from the appearance in their midst of an exotic and beautiful femme fatale, a cousin of the bride. Newland Archer is a distinguished lawyer looking forward to his...
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