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A pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton   Thought Edith Wharton is best known for her cutting contemplation of ...

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The third in the Modern Library's series of original compilations, The Raven and the Monkey's Paw is a collection of classic tales and poems to engage our fear-seeking senses. The beauty of these stories and poems lies in their readability: ideal ...

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One of Edith Wharton's most famous novels-the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize-exquisitely details a tragic struggle between love and responsibility in Gilded Age New York. Newland Archer, an aristocratic young lawyer, is engaged to the ...

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Edith Wharton’s lacerating satire on marriage and materialism in turn-of-the-century New York features her most selfish, ruthless, and irresistibly outrageous female character. Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously a...

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Edith Wharton’s most widely read work is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. This brilliantly wrought, tragic novella explores the repressed emotions and ...

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As part of Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series, this edition of House of Mirth contains carefully seclected critical essays which approach the book from several contemporary critical perspectives.

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Edith Wharton's seven works of travel have been called "brilliantly written and permanently interesting." For the first time, excerpts from each of these works have been made available to the general reader in a single volume. The collec...

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With a new introduction by Kelly Link In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is b...

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Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911) is a novel about emotional frigidity. Set in New England in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story concerns Ethan Frome and his cantankerous wife Zeena. Mattie comes to help her cousin Zeena k...

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A macabre anthology of chilling poetry and short fiction from Edgar Allan Poe features The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue, among other works, as well as tales by O. Henry, W. W. Jacobs, Edith Wharton, and Charle...

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A tale of life and love in the exquisite drawing-rooms of New York society in the 1870s.

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A portrait of American manners and morals at the turn of the century offers the saga of Lily Bart, a beautiful heroine who lacks one requirement for marrying well in New York society--her own money.

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In the first novel, a New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin, and in the second novel, Charity Royall enjoys an idyllic summer romance with visiting architect Lucius Harvey.

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The original text of The Decoration of Houses continues without revision as an authentic classic, perhaps the most important book of its kind ever published. Its carefully reasoned chapters on such aspects of house interiors as fireplaces, ceiling...

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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzells eight original illustrations. A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. An abundant selection of contextual material, including ...

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Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Age of Innocence features the complete text of the first (1921) edition. An introduction by Sheila Liming provides historical and sociocultural context to the novels Gilded Age se...

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The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Wo...

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It is fully annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a rich selection of materials, some previously unavailable, for the study of contemporary psychological, social, and economic issues, as well as Wharton...

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"Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel. Many documents are included on the "New York Four Hundred," elite social gatherings, archery (the sport for upper-crust daughters), as well as Whar...

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Edith Wharton s masterpiece brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age. Set among the very rich in 1870s New York, it tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite May Welland, when he meets h...

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Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that which offers his greatest chance at happiness. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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From the author of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Set in New England, a farmer struggles to survive a bare existence, tethered to his farm, first by his helpless parents and then by a hypochondriac wife. Yet, when his wife's alluring cousin comes to stay, ...

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Seven superbly crafted tales: "Souls Belated," "The Pelican," "The Muse's Tragedy," "Expiation," "The Dilettante," "Xingu," and "The Other Two."

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A tale of life and love in the exquisite drawing-rooms of New York society in the 1870s.

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Wharton's first literary success, set amid the previously unexplored territory of fashionable New York society, reveals the hypocrisy and destructive effects of the city's social circle on the character of Lily Bart. Impoverished but well-born, Li...

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One of interior design's most important and influential titles. Created in 1897 by a distinguished author and an accomplished architect whose common sense and practicality remain forever in style.

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"Aunt" Charlotte gave up her daughter to allow the child an advantageous position in 19th-century New York society. Years later, on the eve of the girl's wedding, Charlotte's suppressed anguish surfaces.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton delivers a stunning, poignant tale that skillfully explores the psychological and cultural influences on human behavior during the early years of World War I. The profoundly moving story follows the shat...

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"New York lawyer Stephen Glennard, in an effort to raise money to pay for his upcoming wedding to his sweetheart, sells love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn. This action comes back to haunt him and his marriage, expos...

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