“edith wharton”

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Age of Innocence" and "The House of Mirth" come four masterful short novels of 19th-century New York that reveal, with subtle irony, the customs, and tribal codes that ruled Society. Novellas include "False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, " and "New Year... More

In addition to Ethan Frome, this Bantam Classic edition contains the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, "The Last Asset", "The Other Two", and "Xingu".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 ... More

The Custom of the Country, first published in 1913, tells the story of Undine Spragg, an exquisitely beautiful but cold and ruthless girl from the American Midwest. In a drama which is by turns comic and tragi-comic, we observe Undine achieving her social ambitions, but only at the highest cost to ... More

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. "Summer is the story of proud and independent Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners ... More

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATEDBY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPEACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that gives readers 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 ou... More

""I stand in portico hung with gentian-blue ipomeas ... and look out on a land of mists and mysteries; a land of trailing silver veils through which domes and minarets, mighty towers and ramparts of flushed stone, hot palm groves and Atlas snows, peer and disappear at the will of the Atlantic cloud-... More

Includes 7 superbly crafted tales of love and marriage, divorce and other topics: "Souls Belated," "The Pelican," "The Muse's Tragedy," "Expiation," "The Dilettante," "Xingu," and "The Other Two."... More

From the esteemed author of The Age of Innocence--a black comedy about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. Lily Bart's quest to find a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of the rich comes to a scandalou... More

EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and her immense commercial and critical success--most notably with her novel "The Age of Innocense" (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Her other novels, including "The Fruit of the Tree," remain fascinating portraits of an ... More