Download or read book Ethan Frome Summer Bunner Sisters written by Edith Wharton and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome-Wharton herself called it “the hot Ethan”-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes. All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers.
Download or read book Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction written by Edith Wharton and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity. Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and “Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America’s finest writers.
Download or read book The Buccaneers written by Edith Wharton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton's spellbinding final novel tells a story of love in the gilded age that crosses the boundaries of society—soon to be an original series on AppleTV+! “Brave, lively, engaging...a fairy-tale novel, miraculouly returned to life.”—The New York Times Book Review Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful. After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and Guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.
Download or read book Bunner Sisters written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
Download or read book Ethan Frome and Summer written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Name of the Otherworld written by Hermione Lee and published by World Castle Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as a witch and alienated by the majority of her peers, fourteen-year-old orphan Alexandria Richardson wants to be anybody but herself. However, this all changes one day, when the mysterious fountain in her school transports her and her three classmates to a world of magic— the Otherworld. The four of them are brought to the palace of the Otherworld on the rulers' orders, and the shocking truth of Alexandria's identity and parentage is revealed. As Alexandria then participates in a miraculous adventure with her companions, she explores the depths of courage, kindness, and friendship. But will she make it safely back to the Otherworld? Or will she eventually yield to her biggest enemy, someone no other than herself? It's not just an adventure. It's a journey of growth and redemption.
Download or read book Teaching Edith Wharton s Major Novels and Short Fiction written by Ferdâ Asya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.
Download or read book Bunner Sisters written by Edith Wharton and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the world of Edith Wharton's "Bunner Sisters" and journey through the streets of nineteenth-century New York City. Prepare to be captivated by the story of two sisters, Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner, as they navigate the challenges of love, ambition, and societal expectations in the bustling metropolis. But what if the bonds of sisterhood are tested by the complexities of urban life? Join Wharton as she delves into the lives of the Bunner sisters, revealing the intricacies of their relationship and the struggles they face in pursuit of their dreams. Follow along as Ann Eliza and Evelina navigate the bustling streets of New York City, from their modest shop on the Lower East Side to the glittering world of high society. "Bunner Sisters" is a timeless tale of resilience, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love. Yet, amidst the hustle and bustle of city life, a poignant question emerges: What does it mean to find happiness and fulfillment in a rapidly changing world? Prepare to ponder this question as you accompany the Bunner sisters on their journey of self-discovery and transformation. Are you ready to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of nineteenth-century New York City? Prepare to be transported to a world of opulence and opportunity as you explore the pages of "Bunner Sisters" by Edith Wharton. Immerse yourself in the vividly depicted world of Wharton's characters as they navigate the challenges of love, ambition, and societal expectations. "Bunner Sisters" is more than just a novel; it's a window into the complexities of life in the Gilded Age. Don't miss your chance to experience the timeless beauty of "Bunner Sisters" by Edith Wharton. Order your copy today and discover a story that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page. Prepare to be transported to a world of love, ambition, and sisterhood. Are you ready to embark on a journey through the streets of nineteenth-century New York City with the Bunner sisters?
Download or read book Bunner Sisters written by Edith Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why buy our paperbacks? Expedited shipping High Quality Paper Made in USA Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton 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. The clock leads the sisters to become involved with Herbert Ramy, owner of "the queerest little store you ever laid eyes on." Soon Ramy is a regular guest of the Bunner sisters, who realize that their "treadmill routine," once so comfortable, is now "intolerably monotonous." Ramy's appearance also begins to distance the sisters from each other, as Ann Eliza notes pathetic signs of flirtation in Evelina. Ann Eliza decides to sacrifice her own hopes and yearnings for those of her younger sister. In spite of Ramy's frequent visits to the Bunner sisters, his background remains shrouded to them; the sisters' naiveté blinds them to Ramy's unexplained absences, from which he returns with "dull eyes" and a face the color of "yellow ashes."
Download or read book Pastoral Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton s Fiction written by Margarida Cadima and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American novelist Edith Wharton (1862–1937) is best known today for her tales of the city and the experiences of patrician New Yorkers in the “Gilded Age.” This book pushes against the grain of critical orthodoxy by prioritizing other “species of spaces” in Wharton’s work. For example, how do Wharton’s narratives represent the organic profusion of external nature? Does the current scholarly fascination with the environmental humanities reveal previously unexamined or overlooked facets of Wharton’s craft? I propose that what is most striking about her narrative practice is how she utilizes, adapts, and translates pastoral tropes, conventions, and concerns to twentieth-century American actualities. It is no accident that Wharton portrays characters returning to, or exploring, various natural localities, such as private gardens, public parks, chic mountain resorts, monumental ruins, or country-estate “follies.” Such encounters and adventures prompt us to imagine new relationships with various geographies and the lifeforms that can be found there. The book addresses a knowledge gap in Wharton and the environmental humanities, especially recent debates in ecocriticism. The excavation of Wharton's words and the background of her narratives with an eye to offering an ecocritical reading of her work is what the book focuses on.
Download or read book The Role of Religion in Shaping and Reshaping Inclusive and Exclusive Communities in Literature written by Kamelia Talebian Sedehi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers various perspectives on inclusive and exclusive societies and the factors involving categorization of people in dystopic and utopic novels and poems, with a particular emphasis on religion. The theme is tackled from different points of views by the various authors, whose contributions focus on American, British, European, and Eastern literature. As such, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative literature, American literature, and British literature, and those who study religion or a variety of interdisciplinary subjects.
Download or read book The World As I Found It written by Bruce Duffy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “wicked, melancholy, and . . . astonishing” novel reimagines the lives of three wildly different men adrift in the 20th century: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore (Newsday). When Bruce Duffy’s The World As I Found It was first published, critics and readers were bowled over by its daring reimagining of the lives of three very different men, the philosophers Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. A brilliant group portrait with the vertiginous displacements of twentieth-century life looming large in the background, Duffy’s novel depicts times and places as various as Vienna 1900, the trenches of World War I, Bloomsbury, and the colleges of Cambridge, while the complicated main characters appear not only in thought and dispute but in love and despair. Wittgenstein, a strange, troubled, and troubling man of gnawing contradictions, is at the center of a novel that reminds us that the apparently abstract and formal questions that animate philosophy are nothing less than the intractable matters of life and death.
Download or read book The Maples Stories written by John Updike and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen classic short stories that form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. In 1956, Updike published a story, “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage. Over the next two decades, he returned to these characters again and again, tracing their years together raising children, finding moments of intermittent happiness, and facing the heartbreak of infidelity and estrangement. Seventeen Maples stories were collected in 1979 in a paperback edition titled Too Far to Go, prompted by a television adaptation. Now those stories appear in hardcover for the first time, with the addition of a later story, “Grandparenting,” which returns us to the Maples’s lives long after their wrenching divorce.
Download or read book Zuleika Dobson written by Max Beerbohm and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford published in 1911. It includes the famous line "Death cancels all engagements" and presents a corrosive view of Edwardian Oxford. The all-male campus of Oxford—Beerbohm’s alma mater—is a place where aesthetics holds sway above all else, and where witty intellectuals reign. Things haven’t changed for its privileged student body for years . . . until the beguiling music-hall prestidigitator Zuleika Dobson shows up. The book’s marvelous prose dances along the line between reality and the absurd as students and dons alike fall at Zuleika’s feet, and she cuts a wide swath across the campus—until she encounters one young aristocrat for whom she is astonished to find she has feelings. As Zuleika, and her creator, zero in on their targets, the book takes some surprising and dark twists on its way to a truly startling ending—an ending so striking that readers will understand why Virginia Woolf said that “Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect.” In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Zuleika Dobson 59th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Download or read book Short Stories written by Edith Wharton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-10-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of short stories about love, marriage, and divorce, including "Souls belated," "The pelican," and "The other two."
Download or read book The Reef written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Critical Reception of Edith Wharton written by Helen Killoran and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ironically, now that she is becoming recognized as a Modernist by some, and as perhaps the greatest American writer of her generation, the criticism often obfuscates more than it reveals. The reasons reside in critics' loyalties to various theoretical approaches, the objectivity of which are often compromised by political hopes. This volume not only traces and analyzes the development of Whartonian literary criticism in its historical and political contexts, but also allows Edith Wharton, herself a literary critic, to respond to various concepts through the author's deductions and extrapolations from Wharton's own words.
