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»Edith Whartons bästa bok - en av 1900-talets bästa romaner. Oskuldens tid har tillfört litteraturen något för alltid.« | The New York Times När grevinnan Ellen Olenska återvänder till New York på flykt undan sin polske make, som hon tvingats håll...

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'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?' Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of ...

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Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, as she pursues her schemes and social ambitions in a world o...

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Our box Summer Stories contains four heartening short stories by some of literature's most beloved authors. Discover tales of love and joy, festivities and sorrow, interwoven with valuable lessons – all against the backdrop of glistening sum...

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Kärlekens sprängkraft och människans hjälplösa sprattlande i ödets nät är temat för denna gripande roman av den stora amerikanska författarinnan Edith Wharton (1862-1937). På ett mycket övertygande sätt skildras enkla människors tillvaro under hår...

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A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village s...

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Three beloved novels by Edith Wharton, in a couture-inspired Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition designed by a fashion illustrator for Alexander McQueen. This edition celebrates the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth in 2012. The House of...

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Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Fromes days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeenas youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husbands f...

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'Wharton's dazzling skills as a stylist, creator of character, ironical observer and unveiler of passionate, thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following Sunday Times Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is ...

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A new Englander of humble origins, Charity Royall is swept into a torrid love affair with an artistically inclined young man from New York City, but her dreams of a future with him are thwarted. A bold, provocative work, SUMMER was an immediate se...

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World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021. When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares shell never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her hom...

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Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. 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 he...

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A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan'. In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagoni...

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»Edith Whartons bästa bok - en av 1900-talets bästa romaner. Oskuldens tid har tillfört litteraturen något för alltid.« | The New York Times När grevinnan Ellen Olenska återvänder till New York på flykt undan sin polske make, som hon tvingats håll...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface' Ethan From...

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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 engage...

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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-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin C...

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Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Counte...

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In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early twentieth-century New York. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that - categories like that - won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love e...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things...'One harsh wint...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped...

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The four short novels in this collection by the author of The Age of Innocence are set in the New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, each one revealing the tribal codes and customs that ruled society, portrayed with the keen style that is un...

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The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century. Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything els...

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A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping,...

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Finally finished by writer Marion Mainwaring, Edith Wharton's timeless story is as riveting today as any written in her own time. Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls whose money is too "new" to get them ...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions' A searing, shocking tale of...

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'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.' Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-centu...

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'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York...

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