Download or read book ADDICTIVE MASTERPIECES The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Persuasion by Jane Austen This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald written by Edith Wharton;Jane Austen;F Scott Fitzgerald and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Persuasion by Jane Austen This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald

Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage. Commentary by William Lyon Phelps and E. M. Forster

Download or read book The Age of Innocence Annotated written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee agreed to award the prize to Sinclair Lewis, the judges rejected his Main Street, on political grounds and "established Wharton as the American 'First Lady of Letters'", the irony being that the committee had awarded The Age of Innocence the prize on grounds that negated Wharton's own blatant and subtle ironies which constitute and make the book so worthy of attention. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the Gilded Age.

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence Annotated Book written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen becomes born on December sixteen, 1775, at Stevenson Rectory in Hampshire, England. Her father, Reverend George Austen (1731-1805) turned into the rector at Stevenson. In 1764, he married Cassandra Leigh Austen (1739-1827) who become from a patrician family. Jane Austen changed into the youngest of George and Cassandra's 8 youngsters - she had six brothers and one sister. The own family changed into tightly-knit, and Jane was particularly close to her sister, Cassandra, and her brother, Henry, who would later became her literary agent.

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Download or read book This Side of Paradise written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1920 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amory Blaine has been brought-up by a wealthy, idiosyncratic and alcoholic mother. Snobbish because he knows no better, he is uncomfortable with others and must learn the proper social etiquette and values that others his age already know. As he progresses to Princeton University from the Midwest, he experiences a series of flirtations with some predatory young women and a chance at friendship with some intellectual young men. His love-life culminates in a genuine but ill-fated love with a soul-mate who rejects him to marry a wealthier young man. This Side of Paradise was first published in 1920 and was considered daring and intellectual in its day. Its enormous popularity helped to launch young Fitzgerald's career as a major writer.

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Download or read book The Age of Innocence written by Edith Wharton and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of unfulfilled romance set against the backdrop of old New York. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ¥ A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information ¥ A chronology of the author's life and work ¥ A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context ¥ An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations ¥ Detailed explanatory notes ¥ Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work ¥ Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction ¥ A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

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