'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...

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

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's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a...

Compelling, rich and strange, the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured and grown more potent with the passing years. 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...

Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until...

Wharton's glittering satire of the newly affluent in Old New York Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper...

"Hudson River Bracketed" ist ein Roman von Edith Wharton, der die Geschichte von Vance Weston erzählt, einem jungen Mann aus dem Mittleren Westen Amerikas, der davon träumt, Schriftsteller zu werden. Er zieht nach New York und hat das...

Für Vance Weston, Sohn eines Immobilienspekulanten, hält die Zukunft ein komfortables Leben in der amerikanischen Provinz bereit. Doch der 19-Jährige mit der lebhaften Fantasie hat eigene Pläne: Vance will nach New York und dort...

In this elegant clothbound Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Edith Wharton deftly sets a tragic love story against the rich backdrop of New York's Gilded Age. von Wharton, Edith