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

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...

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

This is the only edition to reprint Wharton's preferred text, the first UK edition. Includes an introduction by Laura Rattray. von Wharton, Edith

New York Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Lily Bart, Tochter aus bestem Hause und tragische Heldin dieses fesselnden Gesellschaftsromans, kämpft mit widerstreitenden Gefühlen: Soll sie sich den großbürgerlichen Konventionen ihrer Familie...

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but...