Edith Wharton: 443 books

French Ways and Their Meaning written by Edith Wharton who  was an American novelist, short storywriter, and designer. This book was published in 1919. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately...

Fruit Of The Tree by Edith Wharton.

The best of ghost stories from Edith Wharton, including: The Bolted Door, His Father's Son, The Daunt Diana, The Debt, Full Circle, The Legend, The Eyes, The Blond Beast, Afterward, The Letters.

In the title story, a refined ladies’ lunch club and its members’ pretensions to cultural understanding, come under Edith Wharton’s keen satiric eye. Also included in this 1916 collection are “Coming Home,” “Autres Temps,” “Kerfol,” “The Long Run,” “The Triumph of Night,” “The Choice,” and “Bunner Sisters.”

Sposi per un anno. Questo è il patto che Nick e Susy Lansing hanno stipulato: rimanere uniti nella buona sorte fino a quando il denaro dei regali di nozze e l’ospitalità degli amici permetterà loro di continuare la luna di miele. Poi, se una migliore occasione si presenterà a uno di loro, l’altro...

Edith Wharton's Coming Home is a short story of seven chapters that centers around the life of a French man named Jean de Réchamp during the war. The story is narrated in the first-personal pronoun and bases itself on reports about the atrocities committed by the German army.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was one of the most remarkable women of her time, and her immense commercial and critical success--most notably with her novel "The Age of Innocense" (1920), which won...

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.

In Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, adapted by Coco Rousseau, the handsome, wealthy Newland Archer, a member of New York’s upper class, is caught in a web of a love triangle - not one he falls into, but one he creates. Is it the fair and innocent but superficial...

Womens Short Stories Volume 1. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we...

A naive girl from a humble background meets an ambitious city boy, and a torrid romance ensues. Despite her pride, independence, and honesty, Charity Royall feels shadowed by her past--especially in her ardent relationship with the educated and refined Lucius Harney. Can passion overcome the effects...

Le village de North Dormer, en Nouvelle Angleterre, abrite une communauté puritaine et étriquée au sein de laquelle la belle Charity vit et, surtout, s'ennuie. Adoptée enfant par le notable du village, le vieux Royall, Charity est née dans la " montagne ", un endroit dont on parle tout...

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book.

A classic, overlooked, unforgettable short story by Edith Wharton.