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  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially ...
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    30,80 €

  • The Custom of the Country
    Edith Wharton
    Undine Spragg is a beautiful and ambitious, yet vain and socially dense young woman with dreams of marrying a rich man. Hoping for a life of prominence and luxury, Undine convinces her family to relocate to New York. The Spragg family, who have a earned their modest wealth from shady practices, are happy to accommodate Undine’s request. When Undine meets Ralph Marvell, an aspi...
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    22,97 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    Young and aristocratic Newland Archer is engaged to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. But when May’s disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, she turns their high-society New York world upside down. The young, successful Newland Archer and sweet socialite May Welland are the high society couple they were always meant to be. However, fresh on the heels of their engagem...
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    20,75 €

  • Summer
    Edith Wharton
    Originally born in an impoverished community, Charity’s parents sought out the most educated man in the nearby New England town to raise their daughter. After being surrendered to a lawyer named Royall, Charity was raised comfortably by Mr. Royall and his wife. However, when Mrs. Royall tragically passes away, Charity’s relationship with Royall is threatened. After his wife’s ...
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    17,83 €

  • Tales of Men and Ghosts
    Edith Wharton
    Featuring life-like and compelling characters, Edith Wharton’s Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection comprised of ten eerie and heart-wrenching narratives. The first story, The Bolted Door, follows Hubert Granice, a failed playwright. Distraught and disappointed in himself, he considers suicide, but is unable to go through with it. Instead, Granice finds another way to punis...
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    20,01 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    A dazzling exploration of social currency, love, and hypocrisy among the Gilded Age’s upper crust, The House of Mirth is a classic novel that remains essential reading. Beautiful Lily Bart is a young New York socialite who enjoys everything that high society in the late 19th century has to offer. She receives plenty of interest from men, but has not yet felt compelled to marry...
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    22,22 €

  • 7 best short stories - Classic Erotica
    Edith Wharton / Guy De Maupassant / Longus
    Erotic literature is genre that uses eroticism in written form, to arouse, amuse or instruct the reader about sexual practices. Erotic literature was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, that brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions - including censorship and legal restraints. Because of this, much of the production of this type...
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    35,30 €

  • The Descent Of Man And Other Stories
    Edith Wharton
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is...
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    13,83 €

  • THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
    Edith Wharton
    Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart.It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come ...
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    28,43 €

  • די גלימפּסיז פון די לבנה
    Edith N. Wharton
    די געשיכטע דעטאַילס די ראָמאַנטיש מיסאַדוואַנטשערז פון ניק לאַנסינג און סוסי בראַנטש, אַ פּאָר מיט די רעכט קאַנעקשאַנז, אָבער נישט פיל אין די וועג פון געלט. זיי טראַכטן אַ קלוג מעציע: זיי וועלן חתונה און פאַרברענגען אַ יאָר אָדער אַזוי ספּאָנגינג אַוועק זייער רייַך פרענדז, האָניק - כוידעש אין זייער מאַנטשאַנז און ווילאַז. ווי סוזי דערקלערט, 'מיר זאָלן טאַקע, אין אַ וועג, העלפֿן...
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    15,87 €

  • Kerfol
    Edith Wharton
    What begins as an ordinary event quickly shifts into the bizarre after the narrator, a wealthy bachelor, meets their friend, Lanvivain, at an old mansion. Thinking about purchasing the property, the narrator and Lanvivain explore the mansion at Kerfol, attracted to the vast and ordinate property. Lanvivain enthusiastically urges the bachelor to buy the property, declaring that...
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    6,59 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    A dazzling exploration of social currency, love, and hypocrisy among the Gilded Age’s upper crust, The House of Mirth is a classic novel that remains essential reading. Beautiful Lily Bart is a young New York socialite who enjoys everything that high society in the late 19th century has to offer. She receives plenty of interest from men, but has not yet felt compelled to marry...
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    14,28 €

  • Summer
    Edith Wharton
    Originally born in an impoverished community, Charity’s parents sought out the most educated man in the nearby New England town to raise their daughter. After being surrendered to a lawyer named Royall, Charity was raised comfortably by Mr. Royall and his wife. However, when Mrs. Royall tragically passes away, Charity’s relationship with Royall is threatened. After his wife’s ...
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    9,88 €

  • The Custom of the Country
    Edith Wharton
    Undine Spragg is a beautiful and ambitious, yet vain and socially dense young woman with dreams of marrying a rich man. Hoping for a life of prominence and luxury, Undine convinces her family to relocate to New York. The Spragg family, who have a earned their modest wealth from shady practices, are happy to accommodate Undine’s request. When Undine meets Ralph Marvell, an aspi...
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    15,04 €

  • Ethan Frome
    Edith Wharton
    The classic short novel of love, deceit, and tragedy, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton has been breaking hearts and shocking readers for over a century. Ethan Frome is a ruin of a man, aged and limping. Alienated from the other residents of desolate Starkfield, Massachusetts, he can barely draw a living from the stony soil of his family farm. For twenty-four years, Frome has held a...
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    8,03 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    Young and aristocratic Newland Archer is engaged to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. But when May’s disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, she turns their high-society New York world upside down. The young, successful Newland Archer and sweet socialite May Welland are the high society couple they were always meant to be. However, fresh on the heels of their engagem...
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    12,80 €

  • Tales of Men and Ghosts
    Edith Wharton
    Featuring life-like and compelling characters, Edith Wharton’s Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection comprised of ten eerie and heart-wrenching narratives. The first story, The Bolted Door, follows Hubert Granice, a failed playwright. Distraught and disappointed in himself, he considers suicide, but is unable to go through with it. Instead, Granice finds another way to punis...
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    12,06 €

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2
    Edith Wharton
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is...
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    12,17 €

  • The Glimpses of the Moon
    Edith Wharton
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    15,70 €

  • Sorelle Bunner
    Edith Wharton
    Ann Eliza regala a Evelina un orologio per il suo compleanno. L’orologio porta le sorelle a farsi coinvolgere da Herbert Ramy, proprietario del negozio più strano che tu abbia mai visto. Presto Ramy è ospite fisso delle sorelle Bunner, che si rendono conto che la loro normale routine, una volta così confortevole, è ora intollerabilmente monotona. Ann Eliza regala a Evelina un o...
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    13,85 €

  • 礁石
    Edith Wharton
    坐落在伦敦及其周围的'珊瑚礁'是一个具有复杂道德的故事，在社会上错综复杂。 故事主要讲述乔治·达罗 和安娜·里斯 的肖像，后者是一位年轻的绅士和寡妇，她打算结婚。 他们俩都对自己的工会感到怀疑，结果令人惊讶。 达罗 与工人阶级善良，慷慨的索菲·维纳 进行了短暂的联络。 后来她遇到了安娜的继子欧文·里斯，后者希望破坏社会惯例并嫁给她。 当安娜 发现达罗 和索菲 的亲密历史时，她担心自己继子的感情，并感到担心自己将要建立的同盟。 沃顿商学院平衡情感动荡和她那个时代的所有社会风度的才华被融入到这本哲学著作中，该著作探索了女性内心的隐喻暗礁。 3 ...
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    18,04 €

  • The Age of Innocence (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Edith Wharton
    Newland Archer is a young, popular, successful lawyer living in an elegant New York City house. His engagement to May Welland is one in a string of accomplishments. His life changes when he meets Countess Ellen Olenska. Through his relationship with her, he begins questioning the values on which he was raised. He sees the sexual inequality of New York society and the shallownes...
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    53,62 €

  • The House of Mirth (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
    Edith Wharton
    The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City’s high society around the turn of the twentieth century. She is a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are...
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    53,41 €

  • The Custom of the Country
    Edith Wharton
    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 tragicomedy of manners novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.The Spraggs, a family of midwesterners from the fictional city of Apex who have made money through somewhat shady financial dealings, arrive in New York City at the prompting of their b...
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    31,64 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by the American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City’s high society around the turn of the last century. Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age ...
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    20,08 €

  • The Descent of Man and Other Stories
    Edith Wharton
    'Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?' -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author’s well-known depictions of upper class life in New York, but also exhibits her remarkable talent in tales of humorous irony, history and the supernatural.Originally published in 1904 ...
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    10,60 €

  • The Descent of Man and Other Stories
    Edith Wharton
    'Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?' -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author’s well-known depictions of upper class life in New York, but also exhibits her remarkable talent in tales of humorous irony, history and the supernatural.Originally published in 1904 ...
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    18,54 €

  • A Son at the Front
    Edith Wharton
    'Wharton has done nothing that equals this.'―New York Times Book Review (1923)'Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed.'-Publishers WeeklyEdith Wharton’s A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which is set on the eve of the First World War reflects the author’s...
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    12,81 €

  • A Son at the Front
    Edith Wharton
    'Wharton has done nothing that equals this.'―New York Times Book Review (1923)'Extraordinarily poignant...Heartrending, tragic, powerful, this is not to be missed.'-Publishers WeeklyEdith Wharton’s A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which is set on the eve of the First World War reflects the author’s...
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    20,76 €

  • Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
    Edith Wharton
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This book forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have re-typed, re-formatted, and re-published the book in a very modern format. Hence every reader would get a new book but without losing its old charm and feel. We ...
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    8,25 €


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