Edith Wharton: 443 books

Nous sommes au XIX è siécle à Starkfield, un village perdu dans la partie montagneuse du Massachusetts. C'est là que, Ethan Frome, homme de 52a lourdement handicapé suite à un terrible accident, arrive tous les jours à midi de sa ferme, située à quelques miles du village, pour venir y prendre...

Une nouvelle gothique dans la grande tradition. Une femme de chambre est envoyée en service dans une sinistre maison à la campagne...

A collection of short stories including: The Bolted Door; His Father’s Son; The Daunt Diana; The Debt; Full Circle; The Legend; The Eyes; The Blond Beast; Afterward; and, The Letters.

Danyers afterwards liked to fancy that he had recognized Mrs. Anerton at once; but that, of course, was absurd, since he had seen no portrait of her - she affected a strict anonymity, refusing even her photograph to the most privileged - and from Mrs. Memorall, whom he revered and cultivated as her friend,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The Marne is named after the critical French battles along the Marne River during the First World War. Troy Belknap, is a wealthy American whose family is enjoying their annual summer visit to France when...

HUBERT GRANICE, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: “Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a “very small...

Among New York City's upper class of the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there was a small cluster of aristocratic families that ruled New York's social life. To those at the apex of the social world one's occupation or abilities were secondary to heredity...

A captivating portrait of a clash of cultures and the role of women in society, this is the story of two young innocents abroad—Fanny Frisbee, a young woman enduring an unhappy marriage, and John Durham, her childhood friend who arrives in Paris hoping to convince Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him.