Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback / softback)

Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback / softback)

Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in Penguin Classics. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain

Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least

Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback / softback)

One of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Ethan Frome tells a story of ill-starred lovers and their tragic destinies. Ethan works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when

Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers. 'Backgrounds and Contexts' includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social, and economic issues, as well as Wharton's private correspondence and writings and biographical

Ethan Frome (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

In Morocco (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. i]In Morocco /i] is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the

A Backward Glance: An Autobiography (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.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

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Wharton Edith)(Pevná vazba)

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 woman's reputation. Brittany conjures

Emperor's Children (Messud Claire)(Paperback / softback)

In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton - Edith Whartonová

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

House of Mirth (Wharton Edith)(Paperback / softback)

Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves, Lily is ultimately ruined by

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York

The Custom of the Country (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is

Dům radovánek, díl I. - Edith Whartonová - e-kniha

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women's Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer (Fraser Kennedy)(Paperback)

'A brilliant collection.... Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive'. -- The New York Times Book ReviewKennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of observation, and offhand elegance that made her

Dům radovánek, díl II. - Edith Whartonová - e-kniha

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Pevná vazba)

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with

The Buccaneers (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

'Brave, lively, engaging . . . a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.' --The New York Times Book Review Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel, telling a story of love in the gilded age that crossed the boundaries of society, soon to be an Apple Original Series on Apple TV+ Set in the

Reef (Wharton Edith)(Pevná vazba)

Edith Wharton's subtle variation on the theme of the eternal triangle features Anna Leath, a rich American widow living in France; and the first love of Anna's youth, George Darrow, who has come back into her life. Hoping to be reunited with George, Anna finds the path of love does not run

Summer (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires, Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan.' In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story,