Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Three Novels of New York: The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in

Old New York (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

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

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 Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

The House of Mirth (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. A lucid, disturbing analysis of the stifling limitations imposed upon women of her generation, Wharton's tale of Lily Bart's search for a husband of

The House of Mirth (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. - An abundant selection of contextual material, including excerpts from Wharton's letters,

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

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

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 Haunting of Hill House: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Jackson Shirley)(Paperback)

In celebration of the Shirley Jackson centennial, a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the greatest haunted house story ever written First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who

The House of Mirth (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

The tragic fall of one of the most heartbreaking characters in American literature, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of 19th century New York high society Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent

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

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. A Penguin Vitae Edition Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May

The Age of Innocence (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer - a member of one of New York's most prominent families - is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out

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 Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Steinbeck John)(Paperback)

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novels Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming

The House of Mirth (Wharton Edith)(Paperback)

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and

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

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and

The Great Gatsby: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Fitzgerald F. Scott)(Paperback)

A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020s A

Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Flaubert Gustave)(Paperback)

The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world's most celebrated novels Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and embarks on two disappointing affairs in an effort to make her

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,

The Qur'an: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Khalidi Tarif)(Paperback)

A landmark new translation of the sacred text of Islam in an elegant deluxe edition Literally the recitation, The Qur'an is considered within the Muslim faith to be the infallible word of God. Tarif Khalidi, the foremost scholar of Islamic history and faith, provides a fresh English translation

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Kesey Ken)(Paperback)

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of a counterculture classic, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched, with a foreword by Chuck PalahniukBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a

Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Davis Dick)(Paperback)

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable

The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Virgil)(Paperback)

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles' mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through