Edith: 1347 books
Aristotle's Way
How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives
Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and...
A Backward Glance
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1998
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir.
With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her travels throughout Europe and her...
by Edith Nesbit, Frances Brundage (Illustrator)
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
A charming beautifully illustrated book originally written for English school children. Edith Nesbit attempts and succeeds to make the history of the English royal children (Prince and Princesses) appealing to young readers by putting it into language they could understand. This version of the book...
Buenos modales. Mejores negocios
Cómo desenvolverse con éxito dentro y fuera de la empresa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Un libro necesario para todo aquel que quiera sobrevivir y destacarse en el ambiente empresarial y social con el conocimiento de las reglas protocolares como herramienta.
En el mundo de hoy -donde todo es rápido y vertiginoso- el éxito tanto en el ámbito empresarial como social nos exige...
Boss Lady
How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret...
by Edith Nesbit
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able...
by Cynthia Asquith, Leonid Andreyev, E. F. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013
Including stories by Donald Antrim, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Deborah Eisenberg, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, and Lily Tuck
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Ethan Frome is a novel that was released in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in turn-of-the-century New England in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film in 1993. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.
The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of...
by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. edition
Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant...
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final,...
by Booth Tarkington, Eugene O'Neill, Edward William Bok
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
A collection of twelve Pulitzer Prize winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for.Alice Adams" by Booth Tarkington Anna Christie" by Eugene O'Neill The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After" by Edward...
by Edith Wharton, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic...