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Satiric portrayal of New York society at the turn of the century in which Lily Bart, the beautiful heroine, is doomed because she is totally dependent on marriage for economic survival.

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First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of...

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Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. "Summer is the story of proud a...

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Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced di...

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeNewland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable...

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On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mat...

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Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening.Summer is the story of Charity ...

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The classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver—with an introduction by Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror Ambitious and wholeheartedly materialistic, Undine Spragg is...

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In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century. The beautiful, much-desired...

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Includes stories such as Afterward the Fullness of Life a Venetian Night's Entertainment Xingu the Verdict and the Reckoning and verse such as Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre etc.

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Includes Kerfol Mrs. Manstey's View the Bolted Door the Dilettante and the House of the Dead Hand.

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It was very still in the small neglected chapel. The noises of the farm came faintly through closed doors-voices shouting at the oxen in the lower fields the querulous bark of the old house-dog and Filomena's angry calls to the little white-faced ...

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Drama Characters: 5 male, 5 female Unit set. Based on the classic story that helped to establish Edith Wharton as the first great American woman novelist, this moving play vividly brings to the stage Lily Bart's flamboyant progress through th...

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Musical Characters: 3 male, 3 female, with doubling & optional guest star Set amid the whirl of 1922 Manhattan society, this sparkling comedy features a jazzy danceable score and a timeless romantic story. With plenty of friends but little mon...

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The classic satire of New York society and the American Dream through the misadventures of an insatiable young striver—with an introduction by Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror Ambitious and wholeheartedly materialistic, Undine Spragg is...

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeNewland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable...

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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for "The Age of Innocence." Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated here and abroad. Her works include "Ethan Frome, The Reef, The Cu...

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"I put most of myself into that opus," Edith Wharton said of The Reef, possibly her most autobiographical novel. Published in 1912, it was, Bernard Berenson told Henry Adams, "better than any previous work excepting Ethan Frome.&quo...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author relates the story of a mother and daughter whose infatuation with the same man causes shock waves to ripple through 1920s New York high society. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker Edith Whartons compulsively readable 20th century classic about the conquests of Undine Spragg, the glamorous and insatiable social climbernow with a new introduc...

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Best known for her satirical depictions of the manners and mores of New York society, Edith Wharton shows her mastery of a far different milieu in this classic story of a farmer who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a tyrannical wife.

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Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so spo...

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These short works display Wharton's talent as a satirist "skilled at dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social constrictions" (Cythina Griffin Wolfe, from the Introduction).

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Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- t...

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The winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, "The Age of Innocence" is at once an elegant portrait of New York's elite in the 1870s and a devastatingly ironic commentary on their attitudes and customs. 384 pp.

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Set in the bleak mansions of England, America, and Normandy, eleven classic tales depict the terrors of persons confronted by unearthly entities.

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A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides ge...

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The distinguished American author describes her life as a member of a wealthy family and the development of her literary career.

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Ten ghostly tales of the Gilded Age from one of America's finest writers -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), author of The Age of Innocence , winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize. "Wharton's graceful sentences create dramatic, populous tableaux and pe...

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