Edith Wharton: 443 books

Book cover of Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Ethan Frome is a classic novel written by Edith Wharton and first published in 1911. The story is 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.
Book cover of French Ways and Their Meaning (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011

Francophile Edith Wharton is buried in Versailles. One of the few foreign front-line correspondents in France during World War I, she penned this collection of articles to orient American soldiers headed to the country. Articles such as “First Impressions,” “Intellectual Honesty,” “Taste,” “Continuity,” and “The New Frenchwoman” reveal the author’s love of her adopted land.
Book cover of Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Edith Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016

Though it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in Italian gardens, yet to enjoy and appreciate the Italian garden-craft one must always bear in mind that it is independent of floriculture. The Italian garden does not exist for its flowers; its flowers exist for it: they are a late and...
Book cover of Tre storie di fantasmi
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 12, 2012

Tre racconti di fantasmi della scrittrice Edith Wharton, una delle voci più importanti della letteratura americana d’inizio Novecento. Ne “Il dito ispiratore”, un vedovo è ossessionato dal ritratto della moglie prematuramente scomparsa; ne “Gli occhi” una terribile apparizione notturna...
Book cover of Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 12, 2018

Per anni Edith Wharton aveva desiderato ritrarre la vita, così com’era, nei villaggi di montagna del New England. Seppelliti sotto la neve del Massachussetts occidentale, quei luoghi esercitavano su di lei un fascino sinistro. Pazzia, promiscuità, lenta inedia mentale e morale sembravano infatti...
Book cover of Sorelle Bunner
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2018

Nei sobborghi della città di New York, le sorelle Bunner gestiscono un piccolo negozio di sartoria e fiori finti realizzati a mano. Senza altri familiari e con una cerchia di conoscenti molto ristretta, trascorrono le giornate lavorando dietro il bancone e uscendo solo per qualche piccola commissione....
Book cover of Xingu
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 21, 2012

Una delle figure più importanti della letteratura americana dei primi del Novecento è la scrittrice newyorchese Edith Wharton (1862-1937), che fu autrice non solo di una serie di romanzi – i più importanti dei quali sono senz’ombra di dubbio "Ethan Frome" (1911) e "The age of...
Book cover of Racconti di uomini e fantasmi
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 27, 2018

L’immenso successo di critica e pubblico che Edith Wharton raggiunse con L’età dell’innocenza, romanzo che le valse il Pulitzer, ha spesso oscurato la sua maestria come narratrice del fantastico. Le sue migliori storie di vita quotidiana e del sovrannaturale compongono questa raccolta in cui...
Book cover of The age of innocence
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2018

The age of the innocent, by Edith Wharton, a book published in 1920, tells the story of Newland Archer. Set in New York in 1870, the story tells of Archer and his marriage to May Welland. But there's a spanner in the works, so to speak. The spanner being May's cousin, the beautiful and tainted by...
Book cover of Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2015

Texte révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Edith Wharton. Inscrite dans le paysage hivernal d'un petit village rural du Massachusetts, la tragique histoire d'amour impossible entre Ethan Frome, homme taciturne brisé par la vie, et Mattie Silver, douce et délicate cousine de son acariâtre épouse,...
Book cover of Au temps de l'innocence
by Edith Wharton
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2017

Newland Archer, jeune avocat prodige issu de la haute société new-yorkaise, s'apprête à épouser la timide mais dévouée May Welland. C'est compter sans l'arrivée inopinée d'Ellen Olenska, rentrée à New York après une piteuse union avec un comte polonais. Farouchement indépendante et résolument...
Book cover of Les Beaux Mariages
by Edith Wharton
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2018

« Il était caractéristique de sa part de garder de ses échecs un souvenir aussi aigu que de ses triomphes, et un désir passionné de les “rattraper”, qui comptait toujours parmi les motifs obscurs de sa conduite. Elle avait enfin ce qu’elle voulait – elle avait conscience de posséder...
Book cover of Chez les heureux du monde

Chez les heureux du monde

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by Edith Wharton, Charles Du Bos
Language: French
Release Date: January 7, 2019

Orpheline ruinée, Lily Bart cherche à faire un riche mariage, bien qu’elle aime un avocat, Lawrence Selden. Trop honnête pour se vendre, mais d’allure trop libre pour garder sa réputation intacte, elle se voit fermer les portes de la haute société. Avec un art digne de son maître Henry...
Book cover of La ricompensa di una madre
by Edith Wharton
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 30, 2013

Dopo aver trascorso un lungo periodo sulla costa francese insieme a una comunità di americani espatriati, Kate Clephane decide di tornare dopo molti anni dalla sua famiglia a New York, dove la buona società l’aveva messa al bando per aver abbandonato il marito e la figlia piccola. A desiderare...
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