LIBROS DEL AUTOR: edith wharton

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  • The Age of Innocence
    Coco Rousseau / Edith Wharton
    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 May Newland, his betrothed, who can bring Newland the happiness, love, and passion...
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    12,68 €

  • Human Nature
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1933. ’Human Nature’ is a collection of short stories. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Her family were extremely wealthy, and during her youth she was provided private tuition and travelled extensively in Europe. A voracious reader, Wharton studied literature, philosophy, science, and art, and began t...
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    33,56 €

  • A Motor-Flight Through France
    Edith Wharton
    Originally published in 1908, ’A Motor-Flight Through France’ was Edith Wharton’s first French travel book and is considered one of the best of her always superior and original travel books. Based on three automobile journeys taken in 1906 and 1907, the book points up the perfections of France during the Belle Époque. 'The motor-car has restored the romance of travel' Edith Wha...
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    33,38 €

  • The World Over
    Edith Wharton
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    42,56 €

  • A Son at the Front
    Edith Wharton
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    35,16 €

  • Old New York - New Year’s Day (The ’Seventies)
    Edith Wharton
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    31,64 €

  • The Marne
    Edith Wharton
    This early novel by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1918 and tells a tale of the First World War. Edith Wharton was a hugely successful writer and the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel ’The Age of Innocence’. ...
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    22,26 €

  • The Edith Wharton Collection (Complete and Unabridged) Including
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She grew up in upper-class pre-WWI society and many of her stories critique this culture, using subtle irony. In this volume are brought together her six most acclaimed works: The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, Summer, The Custom of the Country and The Reef. ...
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    71,79 €

  • The Valley of Decision - A Novel - Vol. I
    Edith Wharton
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    42,50 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
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    18,58 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
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    26,52 €

  • The Valley of Decision - A Novel - Vol. 2
    Edith Wharton
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    42,59 €

  • The Glimpses of the Moon
    Edith Wharton
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    35,64 €

  • Fighting France by Edith Wharton, History, Travel, Military, Europe, France, World War I
    Edith Wharton
    On the 30th of July, 1914, motoring north from Poitiers, we had lunched somewhere by the roadside under apple-trees on the edge of a field. Other fields stretched away on our right and left to a border of woodland and a village steeple. All around was noonday quiet, and the sober disciplined landscape which the traveller’s memory is apt to evoke as distinctively French. Sometim...
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    10,46 €

  • Here and Beyond
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She grew up in upper-class pre-WWI society and many of her stories critique this culture, using subtle irony. Here and Beyond was written in 1926 and includes ghost stories, social dramas and character studies set in Brittany, New England, and Morocco. ...
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    8,57 €

  • The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton
    This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton’s masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart. As a keen observer of human nature, Wharton weaves her ghostly tales with remarkable subtlety and psychological depth. Her ghosts are not mere apparitions but poignant manifestations of guilt,...
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    44,15 €

  • In Morocco by Edith Wharton, History, Travel, Africa, Essays & Travelogues
    Edith Wharton
    A classic piece of travel writing, Edith Wharton’s remarkable account of her journey to Morocco. 'Within a few years far more will be known of the past of Morocco, but that past will be far less visible to the traveler than it is today,' she wrote in her introduction. 'Excavations will reveal fresh traces of Roman and Phoenician occupation; the remote affinities between Copts a...
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    11,27 €

  • Certain People
    Edith Wharton
    'Certain People' is a collection of short stories written by the Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, Edith Wharton. This wonderful compendium of stories would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and it will be of special interest to fans and collectors of Wharton’s prolific work. The stories contained herein include: ’Atrophy’, ’A Bottle of Perrier’, ’After Holbein...
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    27,87 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
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    16,82 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
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    24,77 €

  • Hudson River Bracketed
    Edith Wharton
    One of Edith Wharton’s unjustly neglected novels, Hudson River Bracketed features two strong protagonists - Vance Weston and Halo Spear. The former is an undereducated young man who arrives in New York with a keen desire to write. Halo Spear is a brilliant, accomplished young woman who introduces Vance to literature and they form a deep bond, which flourishes and endures despit...
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    18,78 €

  • The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Although she grew up in a world of refined manners and fashionable people, she was also aware of its superficiality, a theme that frequently appeared in her works. She began writing short stories and poetry at a young age, impressing such literar...
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    31,45 €

  • The House of Mirth & the Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society’s games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous marriage. Yet, torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love, she manages to sabotage all her possible chances for a...
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    24,91 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    The Age of Innocence won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story is set in upper class New York City in the 1870s. The Age of Innocence centers on an upper class couple’s impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870’s New York society, it never devolves ...
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    13,37 €

  • Ethan Frome
    Edith Wharton
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    17,69 €

  • The Greater Inclination
    Edith Wharton
    This early work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all Christian theologians. A meticulously researched study into the Papal Schism of the lat 14th and early 15th century that contains a wealth of information that is still of great interest today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarc...
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    22,24 €

  • The Fruit of the Tree
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton’s novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. This story is about a nurse...
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    41,25 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing society’s games, which expect her to achieve an advantageous marriage. Yet, torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love, she manages to sabotage all her possible chances for a ...
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    14,20 €

  • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds
    Edith Wharton
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    15,07 €

  • Coming Home
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton’s novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. Ethan Frome is her most fam...
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    14,32 €