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  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton / Wharton Edith Wharton
    On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances 'above the Forties,' of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content t...
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    33,69 €

  • Italian Backgrounds (1905)
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    30,11 €

  • A Motor-Flight Through France (1908)
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    32,17 €

  • A Gift From The Grave (1900)
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    16,49 €

  • The Marne (1919)
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,39 €

  • The Marne
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,55 €

  • The Reef
    Edith Wharton / Wharton Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton’s novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. The Reef tells the story of Americans in France and the social conflicts they face. The morality in this novel revolves around a woman opposing the marriage of her stepson to a woman who has had an af...
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    26,96 €

  • The Valley of Decision
    Edith Wharton / Wharton Edith Wharton
    Wharton’s first novel is set in late 18th century Italy. Valsecca inherits a dukedom at a young age. During the French Revolution he had allied himself with the forces of social reform. Now he must face the tradition of feudalism, which comes with his social class. He struggles with these conflicting loyalties. ...
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    35,24 €

  • Crucial Instances; Sanctuary
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    37,66 €

  • Stories Of New York
    Annie Eliot / Bliss Perry / Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,92 €

  • Xingu and Other Stories
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    26,95 €

  • The Greater Inclination; The Touchstone
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    37,63 €

  • A Backward Glance
    Edith Wharton
    This antiquarian volume contains ’A Backward Glance’, Edith Wharton’s detailed account of her life, both pubic and private. She describes in a dazzling yet delicate manner, the upper-class New York society within which much of her youth was spent. The book details her traversing of Europe and her prolific achievement in the field of literature when she was an adult. A fantastic...
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    45,53 €

  • French Ways And Their Meaning
    Edith Wharton
    ''French Ways And Their Meaning'' is a non-fiction book written by Edith Wharton, an American author and literary critic. The book was first published in 1919 and provides a detailed exploration of French culture and society during the early 20th century. Wharton, who lived in France for many years, uses her personal experiences and observations to examine various aspects of Fr...
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    28,14 €

  • French Ways and Their Meaning
    Edith Wharton
    This vintage book contains Edith Wharton’s 1919 collection of essays on French culture, 'French Ways and Their Meanings'. Written during World War One, these thought-provoking and insightful essays explore French society in the early-twentieth century, and have a particular focus on the difference between French and American women. Her comparison of French and American societie...
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    37,41 €

  • The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Literary, Fantasy, Classics
    Edith Wharton
    The Valley of Decision is set in eighteenth-century Italy. Here Wharton pits folks inspired by the antireligious thoughts of Rousseau and Voltaire against the orthodox leaders of the day. Soon enough Wharton’s night-constant theme comes through: this, like most other violations of personal convention, will come at a terrible cost. ...
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    18,04 €

  • The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories
    Edith Wharton
    Born into the hoi polloi of New York society in 1862, Edith Wharton married in 1885, and that marriage was a disappointment -- she may well have been born and bred to be a society wife, but she was a woman with talent, and it was a talent that would not leave her in peace. She published her first story in 1889, and numerous books in the years that followed. Among those books we...
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    12,79 €

  • Summer
    Edith Wharton
    OF INTEREST TO: readers of modern American literature, Wharton fansShe lay on the warm ridge, thinking of many thing that the woodsman’s appearance had stirred up in her. She knew nothing of her early life, and had never felt any curiosity about it: only a sullen reluctance to explore the corner of her memory where certain blurred images lingered. But all that had happened to h...
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    18,08 €

  • The Touchstone by Edith Wharton, Fiction, Literary, Classics
    Edith Wharton
    The Touchstone was Edith Wharton’s first published novella, and it’s spare, perhaps even underwritten. Even so, this Faustian tale of a man who stoops to publish love letters for money has mesmerizing, even dangerous qualities -- it has betrayals, greed, and consequences faced: hidden meanings emerge in places where we do not expect to find them. Perhaps, like Stephen Glennard ...
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    11,34 €

  • Bunner Sisters
    Edith Wharton
    In the days when New York’s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show-window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter borderi...
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    30,97 €

  • Tales of Men and Ghosts
    Edith Wharton
    HUBERT GRANICE, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece. Three minutes to eight. In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat. It was a comfort to reflect that Ascham was so punctual - the su...
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    29,91 €

  • The Descent of Man and Other Stories
    Edith Wharton
    Lethbury, surveying his wife across the dinner table, found his transient glance arrested by an indefinable change in her appearance.'How smart you look! Is that a new gown?' he asked.Her answering look seemed to deprecate his charging her with the extravagance of wasting a new gown on him, and he now perceived that the change lay deeper than any accident of dress.-from 'The Mi...
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    24,51 €

  • Tales of Men and Ghosts
    Edith Wharton
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - HUBERT GRANICE, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece. Three minutes to eight. In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of ...
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    33,64 €

  • Bunner Sisters
    Edith Wharton
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - In the days when New York’s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the wall...
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    34,70 €

  • The Book of the Homeless
    Edith Wharton
    Although Edith Wharton may be best known for her novels analyzing New York’s upper crust, the author lived in France from 1907 until her death in 1937. There, she witnessed the ravages of World War I, especially the hardships endured by refugees. She helped by establishing The Children of Flanders Relief Committee and The American Hostels for Refugees. To raise money for her ch...
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    43,46 €

  • Crucial Instances
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    16,75 €

  • The Lady’s Maid’s Bell
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,77 €

  • Coming Home
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,77 €

  • The Recovery
    Edith Wharton
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,77 €

  • The Reef
    Edith Wharton
    The Reef is a novel written by Edith Wharton, published in 1912. The story revolves around the lives of four characters, Anna Leath, her fianc����� George Darrow, her former lover Sophy Viner, and her husband’s friend Owen Leath. Anna and George are engaged to be married, but their relationship is tested when George discovers that Anna had a brief affair with Owen before their ...
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    36,31 €


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