The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith WhartonOne might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, '...till I was twenty-seven or...
A Backward Glance: An Autobiography
Edith WhartonA Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throu...
This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequ...
Includes 7 superbly crafted tales of love and marriage, divorce and other topics: 'Souls Belated,' 'The Pelican,' 'The Muse's Tragedy,' 'Expiation,' 'The Dilettante,' 'Xingu,' and 'The Other Two.'
The Custom of the Country: (Penguin C...
Edith WhartonWharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Considered by many to be her master...
Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories
Edith WhartonIn addition to Ethan Frome, this Bantam Classic edition contains the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, 'The Last Asset,' 'The Other Two,' and 'Xingu.
The Buccaneers (Great Books of the 20...
Edith WhartonA classic work left unfinished by Edith Wharton has been brought to a successful completion using Wharton's own synopsis, as it chronicles the fortunes of five rich New York girls who travel to England in search of titled husban...
A Son at the Front (Dover Thrift Edit...
Edith WhartonEdith Wharton constructs a stunning, poignant tale that skillfully explores the shattered lives of distraught parents left behind as their son enlists to fulfill his military duty during World War I.
A Son at the Front: Historical Novel
Edith WhartonIn the summer of 1914, John Campton, divorced American painter who lives in Paris, is expecting the arrival of his son George and plans to spend a month traveling with him. However, the war breaks out in Europe and they must cancel th...
Afterward: A Ghost Story for Christma...
Edith WhartonA newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappe...
This book "" Autres Temps...1916 "" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by ...
"Bewitched" is a short story by Edith Warton, first published in 1926 in the collection "Here and Beyond". The stories include ghost stories, character studies and social dramas set in Brittany, New England, and Mo...
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Coming Home 1916 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, an...
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Edith Wharton's Early Short Fiction is a collection of a number of early short stories written by the American writer and novelist Edith Wharton. Most of these stories were first published in the beginning of the twentieth century in ...
Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome: I Don't ...
Edith WhartonEdith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in he...
Published in 1917, Summer is a story of love, romance and sensuality. It follows the life of a young American female from New England named Charity Royall who was born in poverty. Charity is loved by her guardian Lawyer Royall who exp...
Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the M...
Edith WhartonEdith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in he...
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth: I...
Edith WhartonEdith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth this background of privilege allowed her to write critic novels and stories about it culminating in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Age Of Innocenc...
Edith Wharton - The Short Stories of ...
Edith WhartonEdith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in he...
Edith Wharton - The Touchstone
Edith WhartonThe Touchstone is a novella by the American writer and novelist Edith Wharton that follows the story of the lawyer Stephen Glennard. In the beginning of the narrative, Glennard finds himself impecunious and unable to afford to marry h...
Edith Wharton - The Valley of Decisio...
Edith WhartonEdith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in he...
Edith Wharton - War & Travel: There A...
Edith WhartonEdith Newbold Jones was born in New York on January 24, 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in he...
Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (Mothers ...
Edith WhartonEdith Wharton's haunting classic Ethan Frome is set in a small, isolated town in Massachusetts, exploring the depths of human emotion and the profound impact of choices made in the face of societal constraints. The story revolves ar...
Ethan Frome (Wisehouse Classics Editi...
Edith WhartonETHAN FROME is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993.ETHAN FROME i...
Ethan Frome: Annotated Edition
Edith WhartonTrapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that...
Ten ghostly tales of the Gilded Age from one of America's finest writers -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), author of The Age of Innocence, winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize. "Wharton's graceful sentences create dramatic, populous tab...
An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many ...
This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1...