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  • THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE
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    THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE
    EDITH WHARTON
    A feminist Oedipus, cut through with Wharton's usual condemnation of social class and high society. Kate Clephane was driven out of New York years ago for abandoning her husband and daughter, Anne, which is why she is so surprised to be asked by to America by the same daughter. ...

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  • THE WRITING OF FICTION
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    THE WRITING OF FICTION
    EDITH WHARTON
    Excerpt: "To treat of the practice of fiction is to deal with the newest, most fluid and least formulated of the arts. The exploration of origins is always fascinating; but the attempt to relate the modern novel to the tale of Joseph and his Brethren is of purely historic interest. Modern fiction really began when the “action” of the novel was transferred from the street to the...

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  • THE DESCENT OF MAN AND OTHER STORIES
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    THE DESCENT OF MAN AND OTHER STORIES
    EDITH WHARTON
    Edith Wharton's books are national treasures. Her sharp eye and dagger-wit takes on marriage, friendship, love and even a ghost in these collected short stories. (Amazon) ...

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  • THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
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    THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
    EDITH WHARTON
    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by the American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society. ...

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  • XINGU
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    XINGU
    EDITH WHARTON
    A group of middle class ladies are members of a lunch club. They competitively and snobbishly concern themselves with issues of ‘culture’ without any really serious understanding of the works they read. ...

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  • TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS
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    TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS
    EDITH WHARTON
    Tales of Men and Ghosts collects ten short stories previously published in Scribner's Magazine and The Century during the years 1909 and 1910: "The Bolted Door," "His Father's Son," "The Daunt Diana," "The Debt," "Full Circle," "The Legend," "The Eyes," "The Blond Beast," "Afterward," and "The Letters." Set in Europe and New York City, the main characters usually are men--artis...

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  • ETHAN FROME
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    ETHAN FROME
    EDITH WHARTON
    Ethan Frome is an isolated farmer trying to scrape out a meager living while also tending to his frigid, demanding and ungrateful wife, Zeena. A ray of hope enters Ethan's life of despair when his wife's cousin Mattie arrives to help. ...

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  • THE OLD MAID (THE FIFTIES)
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    THE OLD MAID (THE FIFTIES)
    EDITH WHARTON
    The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her - the beautiful, upstanding Delia - and her true mother, her plain, unmarried ‘aunt’ Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina’s wedding day, when Delia’s and Charlotte’s hidden jealousies rush to the surf...

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  • TWILIGHT SLEEP
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    TWILIGHT SLEEP
    EDITH WHARTON
    Twilight Sleep is a novel by American author Edith Wharton and was first published in 1927 as a serial in the Pictorial Review before being published as a novel in the same year. The story, filled with irony, is centered around a socialite family navigating the New York of the Jazz Age and their relationships. This novel landed at number one on the best-selling list just two mo...

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  • THE DECORATION OF HOUSES
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    THE DECORATION OF HOUSES
    EDITH WHARTON
    Thousands of books on interior design have come and gone since the 1897 publication of this pioneering manual, but The Decoration of Houses remains, thanks to the insightful and inspiring advice of its co-authors. Before she became the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was a society matron, remodeling a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island. Wi...

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  • BUNNER SISTERS
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    BUNNER SISTERS
    EDITH WHARTON
    Bunner Sisters, written in 1892 but not published until 1916 in Xingu and Other Stories, takes place in a shabby neighborhood in New York City. The two Bunner sisters, Ann Eliza the elder, and Evelina the younger, keep a small shop selling artificial flowers and small handsewn articles to Stuyvesant Square's "female population." Ann Eliza gives Evelina a clock for her birthday....

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  • SUMMER
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    SUMMER
    EDITH WHARTON
    Summer is about a young woman's pride, independence and honesty through the character of Charity Royall. Along with her story is that of Lawyer Royall. It is the story of two protagonists who must come to terms with destructive illusions in order to lead adult lives. ...

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  • THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
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    THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
    EDITH WHARTON
    The House of Mirth, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1905. The story concerns the tragic fate of the beautiful and well-connected but penniless Lily Bart, who at age 29 lacks a husband to secure her position in society. ...

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  • OLD NEW YORK
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    OLD NEW YORK
    EDITH WHARTON
    The events in 'Old New York' are set in the same New York as Wharton’s 'The Age of Innocence', making this a prequel. In 'Old New York' Wharton once again explores the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society. Unsurprisingly Old New York is reminiscent of 'The Age of Innocence'. Once again Wharton is at her very best weaving stories full of truth and powe...

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  • A SON AT THE FRONT
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    A SON AT THE FRONT
    EDITH WHARTON
    'A Son at the Front' is Edith Wharton’s extremely personal novel about love, loss, and the intersection of war and art. It’s a powerful, moving portrait of empathy and loss. One of Wharton’s very best novels. ...

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  • SUMMER
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    SUMMER
    EDITH WHARTON
    Edith Wharton's Controversial Coming-of-Age Novel A story full of spirit and scandal… Charity Royall longs for more in life. She can't stand her sleepy little village or the people who walk its streets. Then, Lucius Harney strolls into town. He awakes an excitement within Charity that can't be chastened. They have no shortage of valid excuses to meet together, but it doesn't ta...

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  • THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
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    THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
    EDITH WHARTON
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of desire and duty in Gilded Age New York A respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan's most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May Welland, a beautiful young woman of fine social standing. But the arrival of the worldly and exotic Coun...

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  • CÍRCULO COMPLETO
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    CÍRCULO COMPLETO
    EDITH WHARTON
    Esta historia sigue a un hombre que antes era de clase media baja, un hombre que, en un momento de su vida, tuvo que trabajar para conseguir todo lo que tenía. Ahora, después de vender una exitosa novela titulada Diademas y Maricas, puede relajarse en el extravagante apartamento de la 5ª Avenida que le proporcionó su novela. Insatisfecho con su recién adquirida vida de ocio, se...

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  • HERE AND BEYOND
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    HERE AND BEYOND
    EDITH WHARTON
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence explores the supernatural and other unknowns in six short stories. The acclaimed Gilded Age author travels around the world and into the unknown with these six tales. After recovering from a bad fever in a Swiss sanitorium, an American pays a social call to a friend’s lonely sister on the coast of Brittany, but his journ...

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  • IL CERCHIO COMPLETO
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    IL CERCHIO COMPLETO
    EDITH WHARTON
    La storia narra di un uomo un tempo appartenente alla classe medio-bassa che, a un certo punto della sua vita, ha dovuto lavorare per ottenere tutto ciò che aveva. Ora, dopo aver venduto un romanzo di successo intitolato Diademi e fascine, può rilassarsi nello stravagante appartamento della Quinta Strada che il suo romanzo gli ha concesso. Insoddisfatto della vita di ozio appen...

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  • ETHAN FROME
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    ETHAN FROME
    EDITH WHARTON
    One of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailab...

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  • THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
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    THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
    EDITH WHARTON
    Edith Wharton's classic story of one woman's quest for wealth and status after the turn of the twentieth century Beautiful, selfish, and driven, Undine Spragg arrives in New York with all of the ambition and naiveté that her midwestern, nouveau riche upbringing afforded her. As cunning as she is lovely, Undine has but one goal in life: to ascend to the upper echelons of high so...

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  • MANHATTAN NOIR 2
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    MANHATTAN NOIR 2
    EDITH WHARTON / STEPHEN CRANE / O. HENRY
    This anthology spans more than a century of noir fiction set in the heart of the Big Apple—"17 sure winners" from Edith Wharton, Donald Westlake, and more ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). The island of Manhattan has been a breeding ground of crime, longing, and discontent since its earliest days as a city—and a natural setting for noir fiction since the genre was invented....

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  • ESTIO
    ESTIO
    WHARTON EDITH
    Procedente del áspero y salvaje ámbito de " la Montaña " y acogida de pequeña por el matrimonio Royall, la joven Charity vive ahora con su tutor ya viudo, el abogado Royall, en North Dormer, un minúsculo pueblo de Nueva Inglaterra roído por el tedio. La visita de Lucius Harney, un joven arquitecto, despierta en ella la ilusión del amor y del deseo, así como la de una nueva vida...
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  • ENCANTO Y COMPAÑIA
    ENCANTO Y COMPAÑIA
    EDITH WHARTON
    Wharton, mujer refinada, elegante y de gran cultura, decidió dedicarse a las letras desoyendo los consejos de su madre que, como tantos miembros de las clases altas de Nueva York, consideraba que la escritura no resultaba adecuada para las mujeres y que las hacía vulgares.En estos relatos ?que abarcan desde 1891 a 1935 y que son una perfecta introducción a la obra de la autora?...
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  • ETHAN FROME
    ETHAN FROME
    WHARTON, EDITH
    Un empleado de una compañía eléctrica ha sido enviado a estudiar la zona de un pequeño pueblo de Massachussets. Allí será cobijado, en una noche de tormenta, por Ethan Frome que a lo largo de la velada le explicará cómo casado con Zeena, una mujer huraña y enferma, se enamoró de Mattie, la prima de Zeena que se alojó en su casa para cuidar de ella y que le correspondió en su am...
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  • LAS COSTUMBRES NACIONALES
    LAS COSTUMBRES NACIONALES
    WHARTON EDITH
    Ésta es la historia de Undine Spragg, a quién su padre obliga a marchar a Nueva York tras su escandalosa fuga y matrimonio con el joven Elmer Moffatt. Divorciada de él, pronto empezará su escala de ambiciones casándose con Ralph Marvell pero los conflictos matrimoniales no tardarán en aparecer. Después de dar a luz a un hijo de Marvell, Undine viaja a Paris. Allí conocerá al co...
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  • LA CASA DE LA ALEGRIA
    LA CASA DE LA ALEGRIA
    WHARTON, EDITH
    Huérfana a los diecinueve años, Lily Bart es acogida por una tía en el seno de uno de los más antiguos clanes de la sociedad neoyorquina. Diez años después, aún no se ha casado, y ni su exigua renta personal ni la generosidad condicional de su protectora han hecho nada para favorecer su independencia. Lily, hermosa, inteligente, con clase, educada para ser un adorno, se ve empu...
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  • EL ARRECIFE
    EL ARRECIFE
    WHARTON EDITH
    El diplomático norteamericano George Darrow se dispone a volver a ver a Anna Leath, la mujer que, catorce años antes, le abandonó para casarse con otro. Anna es ahora una rica viuda que vive en un idílico cháteau francés con su hija de nueve años y su joven hijastro, y Darrow espera ansioso recuperar la oportunidad perdida; pero en el último momento ella aplaza la cita. Desenga...
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  • LA CASA DE LA ALEGRIA
    LA CASA DE LA ALEGRIA
    WHARTON EDITH
    La casa de la alegría fue la novela que consagró a Edith Wharton, saludada desde su publicación como un clásico norteamericano. Huérfana a los diecinueve años, Lily Bart es acogida por una tía en el seno de uno de los más antiguos clanes de la sociedad neoyorquina. Diez años después aún no se ha casado y ni su exigua renta personal ni la generosidad condicional de su protectora...
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    $580.00


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