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Having lived in France during the First World War, it"s no surprise that Wharton documented the impact on her spiritual homeland, both in fiction and non-fiction. 'Coming Home" is told from the perspective of an American aid worker, who helps a wo...

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After self-imposed exiled in Italy, Mrs Lidcote is returning to New York, full of trepidation about her divorced daughter"s remarriage. Mrs Lidcote is a divorcee herself and only too aware of what it means in social circles. Can she change her dau...

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While she might be best known as the author of 'The Age of Innocence" (adapted for film, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daniel Day-Lewis), Edith Wharton wrote an extensive range of novels, journals, and poetry. Containing 24 poems, 'Artemis t...

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Bunner Sisters explores the lives of the impoverished class in 1870s New York. Sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina run a small shop out of a shabby basement on a side street. Despite their misfortunes, they are happy in their small, supportive community...

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Witty socialite Lily Bart has expensive tastes. Unfortunately, she does not have the social status to match. So far she has managed to get by on 'old money' and has become accustomed to a certain level of luxury. Her luck seems to be running out, ...

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In the early years of the 20th Century, Edith Wharton took the road trip of a lifetime across France with the celebrated author, Henry James (author of 'Turn of the Screw," later adapted for TV, featuring 'Downton Abbey" star Michelle Dockery). Ac...

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Her beloved France was torn apart by the First World War and yet Edith Wharton still felt compelled to put pen to paper. <br><br>Inspired by some of her own experiences, 'A Son at the Front" tells the story of George, who is enlisted i...

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Sit back, relax, and join Edith Wharton on her journey through early 20th century Italy. <br><br>A seasoned traveller, 'Italian Backgrounds" condenses a decade"s worth of Edith Wharton"s journeys through Italy, into one work. A chronic...

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Among the many twentieth century treatises on the art of writing, there were few that attempted to analyze the development of form and style. But Edith Wharton's bestselling classic, 'The Writing of Fiction' did just that. Complete with chapters d...

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While Wharton is best known for her searing autopsies on American aristocracy, 'Verses" reveals a more introspective side of the author. This was her first work, published by her parents, and swiftly to be followed by 'The House of Mirth" and 'The...

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Deep dive into American literature"s famous female writer with this remarkable collection of 'Selected Edith Wharton". Detailing the lives, loves and losses of a country"s people, we"ll start our journey with the isolated farmer and his mean and m...

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På en enskilt belägen gård i ett kallt, snötäckt New England arbetar Ethan Frome hårt för att kunna försörja sig själv och sin svaga fru Zeena, som han gift sig med på grund av sin rädsla för att bli ensam efter sina föräldrars död. Deras äktenska...

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På en enskilt belägen gård i ett kallt, snötäckt New England arbetar Ethan Frome hårt för att kunna försörja sig själv och sin svaga fru Zeena, som han gift sig med på grund av sin rädsla för att bli ensam efter sina föräldrars död. Deras äktenska...

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I det sena 1900-talets New York finns höga krav på en kvinna i överklassen - hon ska vara vacker, rik, kultiverad och framför allt sedesam, åtminstone på ytan. Den 29-åriga Lily Bart har haft alla förutsättningar att gifta sig framgångsrikt i sin ...

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New York runt år 1900. Upper East Side, Metropolitan Museum - Edith Wharton, författare till bland annat romanen Oskuldens tid , tar oss i Kvicksand med till det aristokratiska, gamla Manhattan. Denna mångbottnade novell bjuder på oväntade vändnin...

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Paris, New York, London och Tokyo - fyra världsmetropoler, fyra noveller som tar dig med på en resa i både tid och rum. Städerna är skildrade av några av våra största klassiker. Följ med till Honoré de Balzacs omsorgsfullt beskrivna Paris och dess...

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Mrs. Quentin sank down on the bench and reached a hand to the girl. “Sit by me,” she said. Miss Fenno dropped beside her. In both women the stress of emotion was too strong for speech. The girl was still trembling, and Mrs. Quentin was...

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Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin ...

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Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome tells the sto...

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Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate advances of her guardian Mr. Roya...

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"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an "open" relationship, but are unprepared for where their feelin...

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Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton"s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer"s easy l...

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"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Fro...

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Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs t...

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Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are two young and attractive, but penniless New Yorkers. They decide to marry, but realize their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth, taken for granted by their more privileged friends. Nick and Susy agree...

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This is a rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton. It contains advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize (which Edith Wharton won for her fictional piece The Age of Innocence). In this book, Edith Wharton provides gene...

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Amerikanen John Camptons enda son George föddes i Frankrike när John och hans dåvarande hustru var på genomresa, och därför kallas George nu in till franska militären för att slåss i första världskriget. Kvar i USA blir John, hans ex-fru Julia och...

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I New Englands hårda vinter kämpar bonden Ethan Frome för att leva ett uthärdligt liv, något som inte är helt enkelt på en nedgången gård med en hypokondrisk fru. Den enda ljuspunkten är hans frus kusin Mattie som börjar hjälpa till hos dem, varpå...

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