Edith Wharton
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This early work on Italian Villas and their Gardens is a beautifully illustrated look at the subject. Chapters include; Florentine Villas, Sienese Villas, Roman Villas, Villas near Rome, Genoese Villas, Lombard Villas and Villas of Venetia. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all historians Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Triumph Of Night" (1916) by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Diagnosed with typhoid fever at age of nine, Edith Wharton was beginning a long convalescence when she was given a book of ghost tales to read. Not only setting back her recovery, this reading opened up her fevered imagination to "a world haunted by formless horrors." So chronic was this paranoia that she was unable to sleep in a room with any book containing a ghost story. She was even moved to burn such volumes. These fears persisted until her late...
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Los libros de Wharton son testimonio de las transformaciones que sufría Nueva York a principios del siglo XX, de las grandes mansiones frente a Central Park hasta las zonas de los obreros explotados, reducidos a una vida indigna en sus diminutos departamentos. A pesar de que no apoyó ni el movimiento sufragista de las mujeres ni el feminismo de su época, las protagonistas de estos dos relatos, y de buena parte de sus libros, son mujeres fuertes,...
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Edith Wharton's haunting classic Ethan Frome is set in a small, isolated town in Massachusetts, exploring the depths of human emotion and the profound impact of choices made in the face of societal constraints.
The story revolves around the titular character, Ethan Frome, a worn-down and introverted farmer whose life is bound by duty and responsibility. Trapped in a loveless marriage with his sickly and bitter wife, Zeena, Ethan's life takes an...
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Lily Bart ist jung, schön und ein gern gesehener Gast auf den gesellschaftlichen Events der New Yorker High Society. Doch mit dem Ruin ihrer Familie kann sie ihr Leben in den feinen Kreisen nur fortführen, wenn sie einen reichen Ehemann findet. Lily muss sich entscheiden: Will sie als bloßes Schmuckstück an der Seite eines Mannes Reichtum und Luxus – oder will sie ein Leben gemäß ihrer tatsächlichen Gefühle?
Wie in "Zeit der Unschuld" zeigt...
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While visiting Rome with their daughters, two middle-aged women reminisce about their romantic rivalry for the dashing Delphin Slade. Although Mrs. Slade admits to falsifying the letter that led to her eventual marriage to Slade, Mrs. Ansley holds her own secret regarding the gentleman. Written by esteemed American author Edith Wharton in 1934, "Roman Fever" was adapted into a play, as well as two operas. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works...
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No vices are so hard to eradicate as those which are popularly regarded as virtues. Among these the vice of reading is foremost.
A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of "mechanical" readers is having a disastrous impact on the world of letters. A subtly devastating work of social criticism, “The Vice of Reading” is also a celebration of the voracious...
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A pair of elderly New York socialites, Anson Warley and Evelina Jasper, reveal the tragedy of the decay that comes with old age. Believing that they are sharing an extravagant meal at a busy dinner party, Anson and Evelina relive a night from their youth in the now-empty dining room at Jasper's once-opulent home.
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Born into wealth and aristocracy, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a member as well as an observer of fashionable New York society. Aspirations to authorship consigned her to outsider status among the idle rich; nevertheless, she drew upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful novels and short stories about people from all walks of life. This well-rounded introduction to Wharton's works features the complete...
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Halston Merrick, a once vibrant and adventurous young man, has settled into a mundane life of conformity in his middle years. Upon meeting up with an old friend after a twelve year absence, Merrick reveals his history in the years since his friend knew him, and the quiet way that he let life slip by him.
54) Escribir ficción
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Wharton, la primera mujer en recibir el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer y, seguramente, la novelista norteamericana más importante de su generación, publicó en la revista Scribner's a mediados de los años veinte una serie de ensayos dedicados a la técnica, la práctica y el oficio de la creación literaria. Escribir ficción es una brillante aproximación a las claves de la ficción moderna, en el que, con sencillez y rigor, desgrana técnicas y...
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In Tales of Men and Ghosts‚ Edith Wharton spins ten tales with a certain thermometrical‚ quality. That is the ability to send a cold shiver down one's spine. This is a collection of stories originally published in Scribner's and Century magazines before 1910. The tales explore psychological, as well as moral or social themes, as when Andrew Culwin realizes to his horror that "The Eyes" that haunt him are his own. In "Afterward," when Ned Boyne...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Marne: A Tale of the War" by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Long Run" (1916) by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Edith Wharton wrote about the lives and customs of nineteenth-century New York gentry as only an insider to their society could. Her elegant tales of elite ladies and gentlemen who worship at the alter of social propriety and who are bound by traditional social mores shimmer with the rich sheen of Americas gilded age and its values. Although Whartons novels provide vintage snapshots of Americas aristocracy, they are timeless in their dignified and...