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2nd Hand Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the ...Show more
Age of Innocence (Word Cloud Classics) by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | 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
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocenceis not only subtly satirical, but also a sometimes dark and disturbing comedy of manners in its exploration of the 'eternal triangle' of love. Set against the backdrop of upper-class New York society during the 1870s, t ...Show more
The Custom of the Country and Other Classic Novels by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Fall River Classics
This book is a bindup of three novels by Edith Wharton: "The Custom of the Country", "The House of Mirth", and "The Age of Innocence". It is part of the Fall River Classics line of jacketed hardbacks, being brought out to coincide with an 8-part mini-series adaptation of the title novel featuring Scarle ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vuln ...Show more
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various ...Show more
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