Edith Wharton: 443 books

Originally published in 1926, Here and Beyond is a collection of six short stories previously released in various magazines. Two of these tales, The Young Gentleman and Bewitched, display distinct gothic leaning in their emphasis on looming architecture and the slow reveal of hidden secrets. The first...

In New York City’s high society, Kate Orme, a young widow, struggles to raise a son who will be free of the moral flaws of his father, Denis. Her son, Dick, will face similar situations as his father, but can he resolve himself to act morally? In this 1903 novella, Wharton’s gifts for acute social and psychological observation are on fine display.

Wharton hit the road with her good friend Henry James, and returned with this 1908 memoir of a trip that spanned the country she would adopt as her home. Largely a tour of the nation’s architecture, the author also relates her pilgrimage to the home of George Sand, perhaps her spiritual mentor.

Ghosts, «Fantasmi», è il nome originario di questa raccolta, dove i racconti sono caratterizzati dalla specifica sensibilità dell’autrice, una sensitiva che grazie alla costante razionalità riesce a rimanere sempre “al di qua della pagina”. Fin da bambina inoltre, la Wharton è «profondamente...

In the title story, the “hermit" is a boy who witnessed the murder of his parents and sister. The trauma has shaped his life, but a new neighbor—the “wild woman"—is about to change his outlook. Wharton's 1908 collection also includes “The Last Asset," “In Trust," “The Pretext," “The Verdict," “The Pot-Boiler," and “The Best Man."

Wharton's first (1899) published collection of short stories ranges from light humor, social commentary, deception, and travel, to the darkly Gothic. Includes “The Muse's Tragedy," “A Journey," “The Pelican," “Souls Belated," “A Coward," “A Cup of Cold Water," “The Portrait," and a short play, “The Twilight of the Gods."

Wharton’s second short story collection (1901) includes witty and perceptive takes on the wealthy and cultured, such as “The Angel at the Grave,” “The Recovery,” “The Copy: A Dialogue,” and “The Rembrandt,” as well as forays into the supernatural with “The Duchess at Prayer” and “The Moving Finger.”

Wharton's finest work which won her the Pulitzer Prize for literature. It tells a story of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible chances for a wealthy marriage, loses the esteem of her social circle, and dies young, poor, and alone. The...

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...

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...

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 monstrosities. This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old...

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Edith Warton a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato l’animale domestico che da più tempo vive insieme all’uomo. Intelligenti, curiosi, coraggiosi, fedeli, romantici, ma anche permalosi e pasticcioni, i cani sono protagonisti...