Download or read book The Portable Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection is a rich representation of the works of one of the greatest 20th-century American writers, best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born.
Download or read book Summer written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first novels to deal honestly with a woman's sexual awakening, "Summer" created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ethan Frome" shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
Download or read book The Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from the turn of the century to the 1930s, these short stories offer look at the glittering but restrictive society of New York and cosmopolitan Europe, as well as portraits of women in search of fulfillment.
Download or read book Selected Novels of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special ebook edition includes four of Edith Wharton's best-known novels: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Madame de Treymes.
Download or read book The Edith Wharton Omnibus written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his brilliant introduction to the present volume, the noted writer Gore Vidal makes this comment: "At best, there are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major' and Edith Wharton is one. ... I can only say that I envy anyone reading for the first time The Age of Innocence or New Year's Day." In these works, as in most of Mrs. Wharton's fiction, her subject is America's upper classes as they flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alive with her inimitable wit and rich with her feeling for drama, her stories carry us from the glitter of New York's high society to the grace and elegance of Newport. The works that make up The Edith Wharton Omnibus are among her very best -- and Edith Wharton's best is very good indeed, ranked by many critics as equal to the novels of her contemporary, Henry James.
Download or read book The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
Download or read book Edith Wharton Abroad written by Edith Wharton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel"--the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Included is an excerpt from Wharton's unpublished memoir, The Cruise of Vanadis, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. Photos.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 4804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. In addition to writing several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories. This meticulously edited collection includes the following works: Afterward, The Age of Innocence, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses, Autres Temps..., Bunner Sisters, The Choice, Coming Home, Crucial Instances, The Custom of the Country, The Descent of Man & Other Stories, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 2, Ethan Frome, Fighting France, The Fruit of the Tree, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Greater Inclination, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The House of Mirth, In Morocco, Kerfol, The Long Run, Madame de Treymes, The Reef, Sanctuary, Summer, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Touchstone, The Triumph of Night, The Valley of Decision, Xingu.
Download or read book The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the library in question was the central, the pivotal “feature.” Mary Boyne and her husband, in quest of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair, who had successfully solved it in her own case; but it was not until they had rejected, almost capriciously, several practical and judicious suggestions that she threw it out: “Well, there’s Lyng, in Dorsetshire. It belongs to Hugo’s cousins, and you can get it for a song...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
Download or read book No Gifts from Chance written by Shari Benstock and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new biography of America's foremost woman of letters in twenty years, No Gifts from Chance presents an Edith Wharton for our times. Far from the emotionally withdrawn and neurasthenic victim of earlier portraits, she is revealed here as an ambitious, disciplined, and self-determined woman who fashioned life to her own desires. Drawing on government records, legal and medical documents, and recently opened collections of Wharton's letters, Shari Benstock's biography offers new information on what have been called the key mysteries of her life: the question of her paternity, her troubled relations with her mother and older brothers, her marriage to manic-depressive Teddy Wharton, and her extramarital affair with Morton Fullerton.
Download or read book The New York Stories of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by NYRB Classics. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of old New York, written over the course of Wharton's career, which focus on themes about the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged.
Download or read book Short Works of Edith Wharton written by Edith Wharton and published by Pinnacle Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Coming Home written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Coming Home by Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Portable Louisa May Alcott written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the publication of Little Women in 1868 earned Louisa May Alcott tremendous popularity, for a long time she was thought of as a writer of children's stories and considered—at best—a minor figure in the American literary canon. Now, at the end of the twentieth century, Alcott's vast body of work is being celebrated alongside the greatest American writers, and this collection shows why. The Portable Louisa May Alcott samples the entire spectrum of Alcott's work: her novels, novellas, children's stories, sensationalist fiction, gothic tales, essays, letters, and journals. Presenting her more daring works, such as Moods and Behind a Mask (both reprinted in their entirety), alongside the familiar heroines of Little Women, this singular collection offers readers a rich and wide-ranging portrait of this talented, prolific, and influential writer.
Download or read book The Long Run written by Edith Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Long Run by Edith Wharton
Download or read book The Glimpses of the Moon written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
