Edith: 1347 books

Set among the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York, Edith Wharton’s most popular novel is a moving indictment of a society whose soul-crushing limitations destroy a woman too spirited to be contained by them.   The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives...

In this short story, software engineer Jackie Rousseau loses her job to outsourcing, as do several others in her group. Their manager doesn't seem to care. Jackie manages to stay afloat financially but she sees the damage the reduction in force wreaks on her friends' lives. Art needs to...

In this short story Elise Chase, about to start a prestigious graduate program in Baltimore, is winding down a quiet life in Japan, teaching English and studying Japanese as she lives with her Navy boyfriend. Their rakish friend Lance flirts with Elise and then asks her to receive a package his sister...

First published in 1948, this book may be described as Dame Edith Sitwell's personal notebook. It consists of essays on the subject of the general aspect of the plays-those great hymns to the principle and the glory of life, in which there are the same differences in nature, in matter, in light, in...

The Long Run Edith Wharton, pulitzer prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer (1862-1937) This ebook presents «The Long Run», from Edith Wharton. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- THE LONG RUN

According to her biographer, Julia Briggs, E. Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": Nesbit "helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Lays and legends - (Second Series). It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work...

Children of Autumn and other Poems Edith Matilda Thomas, an American poet (1854-1925) This ebook presents «Children of Autumn and other Poems», from Edith Matilda Thomas. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...

The Rainbow and the Rose Edith Nesbit, english author and poet (1858-1924) This ebook presents «The Rainbow and the Rose», from Edith Nesbit. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- DEDICATION -03- PART...

The New Treasure Seekers takes us back to the six Bastable children who get into scrapes by always trying to be good. Older children will sympathize with the senior Bastables as their younger siblings create havoc. The flawless narrative of Oswald Bastable gives the reader a hilarious child's-eye...

Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones, January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. -wikipedia

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive...

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