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...

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...

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer - a member of one of New York's most prominent families - is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands...

Ghosts von Wharton, Edith

"The Age of Innocence" von Edith Wharton ist ein Roman, der im New York der 1870er Jahre spielt und die Zwänge und Erwartungen der Oberschicht dieser Zeit thematisiert. Die Geschichte dreht sich um Newland Archer, einen jungen Anwalt,...

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 award-winning novelist. It...

Young and aristocratic Newland Archer is engaged to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. But when May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, she turns their high-society New York world upside down. The young, successful...

Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif BatumanDutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to...

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...

The Custom of the Country von Wharton, Edith

For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan FranzenBorn into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the...