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A Backward Glance - An Autobiography by Edith Wharton; Louis Auchincloss (Introduction by)
Category: Biography
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her literary s ...Show more
A Motor-flight Through France by Edith Wharton
Category: Travel Literature
Shedding the constraints that existed for women in turn-of-the-century America, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. Originally published in 1908, "A Motor-Flight Through France" is considered by many to be the very best of Wharton's ou ...Show more
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels Ser.
This contribution has made it's way to the great literature of the day and it is Edith Wharton's work, "A Son at The Front," its predecessors in greatness, "Men Like Gods" and "The Middle Road" sharing the laurels by reason of their themes and the treatment of these themes. "The Middle of The Road" and ...Show more
A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction
Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, Wharton tells an intimate and capti ...Show more
AGE OF INNOCENCE - Insight Text Guide by WHARTON EDITH
Category: Education | Series: Insight Text Guide Ser.
Insight Study Guides are written by experts and cover a range of popular literature, plays and films. Designed to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries. ...Show more
Age of Innocence (Word Cloud Classics) by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Word Cloud Classics
In a society where people dreaded scandal more than disease, passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Whartons The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I Golden Age of upperclass society in New York, and is framed by societys strict moral code. When soon-to-be-we ...Show more
American Classics Collection (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The American Classics Collections box set includes The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, with new introductions and bespoke covers. Part of the Macmillan Collec ...Show more
EDITH WHARTON A HOUSE FULL OF ROOMS ARCH by CRAIG THERESA BESSLER JOHN WHARTON EDITH
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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happines ...Show more