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Set in rural New England, "Ethan Frome" is the story of its title character who marries Zenobia, a nagging hypochondriac of a woman, and finds himself trapped in an unfulfilling life. When Zenobia's young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, Frome falls in love with her. "Ethan Frome" is the story of forbidden love and its tragic consequences. In "Summer" we have the story of the sexual awakening of a young woman, Charity Royall. Charity,...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Being a very great observer of human nature, Edith Wharton has very skillfully developed the characters of the novel with a minimal number of strokes. It is the artful writing of the author that has kept the book popular even today. There are several evocative passages in "Ethan Frome." The beauty and splendor of winter in rural New England has been described in these evocative passages in the story. The author's deep sensibility to natural beauty...
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Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels of social and psychological insight. She was also well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt....
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Diagnosed with typhoid fever at age of nine, Edith Wharton was beginning a long convalescence when she was given a book of ghost tales to read. Not only setting back her recovery, this reading opened up her fevered imagination to "a world haunted by formless horrors." So chronic was this paranoia that she was unable to sleep in a room with any book containing a ghost story. She was even moved to burn such volumes. These fears persisted until her late...
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This early work on Italian Villas and their Gardens is a beautifully illustrated look at the subject. Chapters include; Florentine Villas, Sienese Villas, Roman Villas, Villas near Rome, Genoese Villas, Lombard Villas and Villas of Venetia. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all historians Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and...
6) The children
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English
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This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Children' is a comic novel about the seven Wheater children and their association with a bachelor that leads to several misadventures. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner's Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short...
7) Novels
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Library of America volume 30
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
1986.
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1328 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Everyman's library volume 312
Publisher
Everyman
Pub. Date
2008
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xlvii, 366 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
1996
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xi, 496 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Age of innocence. Seemingly happy in his comfortable, if repressive, world of upper class New York, Newland Archer finds himself questioning all his carefully cherished assumptions about life when he meets his fiancee's cousin, the mysterious, non-conformist Countess Olenska.
Summer. The book's heroine is an eighteen-year-old girl named Charity Royall. Living in the small town of North Dormer, she is ignorant of desire until she meets a visiting...
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Library of America volume 47
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1990.
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1137 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 121
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2001
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x, 928 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2007
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1 CDs ( 29 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Wharton's The age of innocence, a novel about the upper classes of New York and the story of Newland Archer's love for Countess Olenska.
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Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story takes place at the opening of a new century, one that held forth all kinds of promises, especially for women. In this post-Victorian Fifth Avenue milieu, Lily Bart, an unmarried woman of 29 with dwindling prospects, needs a husband badly. She lives beyond her means, relying on the grudging charity of her elderly aunt. She is the kind of girl who would make an admirable decoration on some fine gentleman's arm, but there is a liveliness--a...
20) The buccaneers
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BBC Video
Pub. Date
[1995]
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1 DVD (approximately 302 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Four young American girls journey from America to England in search of romance and adventure in this exquisite production of Edith Wharton's final book.
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