Edith Wharton
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English
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In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have...
45) The buccaneers
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English
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Four young American girls journey from America to England in search of romance and adventure in this exquisite production of Edith Wharton's final book.
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Criterion collection volume 913
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English
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Tells the story of Newland Archer, whose engagement to an innocent socialite binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. When her cousin arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America.
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"Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Arthur is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a...
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English
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Ethan Frome: Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another.
St. Ives: During the Napoleonic wars in France, the Count of St. Ives, a French nobleman, is taken prisoner by the British and taken to a prison in Scotland. Thinking that his entire family was murdered during the uprising, St. Ives finds that his brother and grandfather are still alive. His grandfather finds out St. Ives is alive. St. Ives...
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Español
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"Los cuentos de terror nos han acompañado desde la noche de los tiempos. Con el paso de los años, el cuento de miedo creó arquetipos y forjó un lenguaje narrativo común que desembocó en la auténtica edad de oro del género que fue el siglo XIX. Tuvieron que llegar grandes maestros como H. P. Lovecraft para que el paradigma cambiase, pero el fondo siempre era el mismo: el miedo a lo desconocido. En esta selección encontramos 18 relatos, testimonios...