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Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A young couple's love is threatened by the destructive power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age In this beautiful novel, Edith Wharton perceptively describes the seductions and temptations of high society with all her trademark wit and irony. Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are you ...Show more
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounte ...Show more
HOUSE OF MIRTH by WHARTON EDITH
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
First published in 1905, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepte ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
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Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a ...Show more
Summer by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | 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; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics 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
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics 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