Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and...

An immensely popular bestseller upon its publication in 1905, The House of Mirth was Edith Wharton's first great novel. Set among the elegant brownstones of New York City and opulent country houses like gracious Bellomont on the Hudson,...

In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I "Golden Age" of upper-class society in...

Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever...

"The House of Mirth" ist ein Roman von Edith Wharton, der 1905 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte spielt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts in der gehobenen Gesellschaft New Yorks und folgt dem Leben von Lily Bart, einer schönen, aber...

The Age of Innocence von Wharton, Edith

Edith Newbold Jones (Edith Wharton) (1862-1937) was born in New York City during the American Civil War. She enjoyed a diverse and very successful career as interior and garden designer, short story writer and celebrated novelist, and...

„Ethan Frome“ von Edith Wharton ist ein Roman, der in einem verschneiten Dorf in Neuengland spielt und die tragische Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten Ethan Frome erzählt. Ethan ist ein armer Bauer, der in einer lieblosen Ehe mit seiner...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon...

The classic account of Edith Wharton's journey to Morocco in the final days of WW1, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. Travelling from Rabat to Fez to Moulay Idriss and Marrakech, she recorded her encounters with...

"The Buccaneers" ist ein unvollendeter Roman von Edith Wharton, der in den 1870er Jahren spielt und die Geschichte einer Gruppe amerikanischer Mädchen erzählt, die nach Europa reisen, um in die britische Aristokratie einzuheiraten. Die...

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful...