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Reckoning: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #48 by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.' This title features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life. Introducing Little Black Clas ...Show more
"Roman Fever" and Other Stories by Edith Wharton
Category: Parenting
From her picture of erotic love and illegitimacy in the title story to her exploration of the aftermath of divorce detailed in "Souls Belated" and "The Last Asset, " Wharton shows her usual skill "in dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social restr ...Show more
Summer by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction
‘Can’t you see that I don’t care what anybody says?’ Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises Nort ...Show more
Summer by Edith Wharton
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Evergreens Ser.
Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of lov ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Laura Ciolkowski (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and thei ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Gemma Barder; Roberta Bordone (Illustrator); Edith Wharton
Category: Children's
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Collins Classics | Series: Collins Classics
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Elif Batuman (Foreword by); Sarah Blackwood (Introduction by); Laura Dluzynski Quinn (Notes by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Vitae Ser.
Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high so ...Show more