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...

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...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Edith Wharton beschreibt in diesem Roman zugleich eine tragische Liebe und porträtiert die High-Society New Yorks um die Jahrhundertwende. Die New Yorker Gesellschaft befindet sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts im...

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...

'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's...

Eine Geschichte von Liebe, Leidenschaft und Entsagung vor dem Hintergrund der morbiden New Yorker Gesellschaft - in den 1870er Jahren - einer der großen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur der Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Edith...

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband...

A Son at the Front offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris during World War I. Wharton's only full-length novel dealing with the war, it portrays the relationship between an American expatriate artist father and his...

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on 24th January 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The...

The Age of Innocence (Collins Classics) von Wharton, Edith

"Meistererzählungen" ist eine Sammlung von einigen der besten Kurzgeschichten der amerikanischen Autorin Edith Wharton. Diese Geschichten, die hauptsächlich in der High Society des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts spielen, sind gekennzeichnet...