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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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  • ETHAN FROME
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    ETHAN FROME
    EDITH WHARTON
    'Ethan Frome' was published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Ethan Frome is a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. The narrator tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to sta...

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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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  • THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
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    THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
    EDITH WHARTON
    The Age of Innocence is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s, and centers on an upper class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870's New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation. ...

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  • THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
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    THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
    EDITH WHARTON
    Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society's games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous marriage. Yet, torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love, she manages to sabotage all her possible chances for a ...

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
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    THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
    EDITH WHARTON
    The classic tale of a young woman’s struggle for love and money from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence.   Raised among New York’s high society, Lily Bart is beautiful, charming, and entirely without means. Determined to maintain the extravagant lifestyle to which she is accustomed, Lily embarks on a mission to marry a wealthy man who can ...

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  • THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON
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    THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON
    EDITH WHARTON
    A tale about money and a marriage of convenience in 1920s New York by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence.   This novel by the author of Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and other classics follows a couple as they venture everywhere from a lakeside villa to a Venetian palace, enjoying an extended honeymoon at other people’s expense—until their calculations...

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  • A SON AT THE FRONT
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    A SON AT THE FRONT
    EDITH WHARTON
    An artist watches his son go to the frontlines of WWI in this novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. Paris, 1914. An American painter living abroad, John Campton is excited to spend a month traveling with his son George. But their plans are cut short when war breaks out across Europe. Raised by his mother in the United State...

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  • SUMMER
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    SUMMER
    EDITH WHARTON
    A rich visitor from the city seduces a local woman, but their affair may not survive the season, in this novel by the Pulitzer-winning author of Ethan Frome. Charity Royall was taken in as a child by an educated man in a small New England town. Her origins on “the mountain”—towering in the distance and whispered about in dark tones—remain murky to her. She only knows she is exp...

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  • THE WRITING OF FICTION
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    THE WRITING OF FICTION
    EDITH WHARTON
    Essays on the craft of fiction writing from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for her novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction,Edith Wharton, a prolific writer and one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors, shares her thoughts on fiction writing, devoting individual chapters to short stories and novels. She stresses the importance of writers putting ...

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  • THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE
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    THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE
    EDITH WHARTON
    In this classic by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Age of Innocence, a mother’s past complicates her daughter’s future in 1920s New York. Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a controlling husband, Kate Clephane began an affair with a wealthy man, only to lose her daughter, Anne, and be exiled from New York society. Years later, after their entanglement has ended, Kate ...

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  • THE REEF
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    THE REEF
    EDITH WHARTON
    The author of The House of Mirth explores the nature of romance as the love affairs of four Americans dramatically intertwine in early twentieth-century France. This novel explores the complicated nature of love, its limitations and its possibilities, through the intertwining love stories of four Americans. George Darrow is a diplomat in London when he runs into an old flame at...

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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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