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  • The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton
    A two volume collection of outstanding stories by an award winning American author The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Perhaps predictably, she married ...
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    20,50 €

  • The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton
    Volume two of Edith Wharton’s excursions into the chilling and other worldly The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Perhaps predictably, she married into a...
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    30,57 €

  • The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton
    Volume two of Edith Wharton’s excursions into the chilling and other worldly The American author Edith Wharton (nee Jones), was born in New York during the American Civil War in 1862. She came from a prestigious family background which, incidentally though tellingly, inspired the perennially familiar phrase, ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Perhaps predictably, she married into a...
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    20,47 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    First serialized in 1920 in the “Pictorial Review” magazine, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which depicts the bygone era of 1870s New York upper class society. It is the story of Newland Archer, a lawyer and heir to one of New York’s most prominent families. Newland is planning to marry the young, beautiful, and sheltered May Welland, a ...
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    12,22 €

  • Ethan Frome
    Edith Wharton
    First published in 1911, “Ethan Frome” is Edith Wharton’s tale of thwarted dreams and desires set in small New England town at the turn of the 20th century. When a young engineer is on assignment in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, he becomes fascinated by the deformed and troubled local, Ethan Frome. Framed through an extended flashback, the young engineer ult...
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    8,30 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    A Life of Privilege Was Ahead - Or Complete Ruin... The House of Mirth, a novel by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), 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 economicall...
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    23,10 €

  • The Age of Innocence
    Edith Wharton
    It Was Going to Be The Perfect Wedding - Until He Showed Up...The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple’s impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride’s cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never develops into an outright condemnation of the ...
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    20,89 €

  • Ethan Frome
    Edith Wharton
    Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton’s novels, ’Ethan Frome’ is widely considered her masterpiece. The eponymous Ethan Frome lives in a typical New England village where he makes a living out of his stony farm and exists at odds with his wife Zeena, a whining hypochondriac. When Mattie, Zeena’s cousin, comes to live with them, love develops between her and E...
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    8,96 €

  • Ethan Frome
    Edith Wharton
    Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton’s novels, ’Ethan Frome’ is widely considered her masterpiece. The eponymous Ethan Frome lives in a typical New England village where he makes a living out of his stony farm and exists at odds with his wife Zeena, a whining hypochondriac. When Mattie, Zeena’s cousin, comes to live with them, love develops between her and E...
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    27,48 €

  • Roman Fever - with The Reckoning
    Edith Wharton
    Love Lost, Love Found, Illicit Love All?''Roman Fever'' is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the magazine Liberty in 1934, and was later included in Wharton’s last short-story collection, The World Over.The setting of the story takes place in the afternoon, in the city of Rome. Two wealthy middle-aged widowed women are visiting Rome with ...
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    11,97 €

  • Ethan Frome
    Edith Wharton
    When Hidden Tragedies Surface On Their Own...Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events.The engineer, staying temporarily in town while he works nearby, is the...
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    15,34 €

  • Ethan Frome (Wisehouse Classics Edition - With an Introduction by Edith Wharton)
    Edith Wharton
    ETHAN FROME is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993.ETHAN FROME is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a h...
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    7,59 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is the story of Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man, a hothouse flower for conspicuous consumption. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her.Written in the s...
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    20,90 €

  • Summer
    Edith Wharton
    Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The story is one of only two novels to be set in New England by Wharton, who was best known for her portrayals of upper-class New York society. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child, and shares many plot similar...
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    16,46 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    The House of Mirth follows the career and final downfall of Lily Bart, a society beauty in turn-of-the-century New York, whose financial security stands on very shaky ground. In a culture where money measures everything and morals are worn like fashionable garments, for appearances only, an essentially honest Lily is torn between offers of a loveless, financially secure marriag...
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    12,27 €

  • Here and Beyond
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Here and Beyond’ is a collection of short stories that includes ’Miss Mary Pask’, ’The Young Gentlemen., ’Bewitched’, ’The Seed of Faith’, ’The Temperate Zone’ and ’Velvet Ear-Pads’. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s...
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    24,35 €

  • Hudson River Bracketed
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Hudson River Bracketed’ is a novel about a brilliant woman, Halo Spear, and an uneducated man, Vance Weston, who form a deep bond through literature. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Sc...
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    39,87 €

  • In Morocco
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’In Morocco’ is a travel journey in which Wharton details her observations and experiences while in colonial North Africa. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Scribner’s Magazine. In 1891, ...
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    26,60 €

  • Kerfol
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Kerfol’ is a ghost story set in a decaying French Chateau in Brittany whose owners are keen to sell for 'a song'. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Scribner’s Magazine. In 1891, the same...
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    13,66 €

  • The Mother’s Recompense
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Mother’s Recompense’ is a novel about a woman who abandoned her husband and child and who returns to her home city of New York after spending years in exile. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were pub...
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    27,50 €

  • The Children
    Edith Wharton
    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 Ma...
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    29,50 €

  • The Choice
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Choice’ is a tale about a man who is in the process of losing the family fortune and whose wife and lawyer seem unable to control. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Scribner’s Magazi...
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    12,28 €

  • The Fruit of the Tree - With Illustrations by Alonzo Kimball
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Fruit of the Tree’ is a novel set in a small mill town and is infused with key social ideas such as labour reform, class, and euthanasia. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Scribner’s...
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    40,10 €

  • The Gods Arrive
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1932 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Gods Arrive’ is a sequel to ’Hudson River Bracketed’ in which the characters, Halo and Vance, try to continue their literary relationship. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Scribner’...
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    27,86 €

  • The House of Mirth
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The House of Mirth’ tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were pu...
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    33,58 €

  • Twilight Sleep
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Twilight Sleep’ is a best-selling satirical novel about a woman’s attempts to alleviate the boredom of life. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton’s first poems were published in Scribner’s Magazine. In 1891, the same publ...
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    30,84 €

  • Bunner Sisters
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Bunner Sisters’ is a story about a couple of sisters who run a small shop in New York. The Elder sister is proposed to by a local clockmaker, but refuses him, and in a turn of events he becomes engaged to her younger sister. Edith Wharton wa...
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    24,84 €

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton - A Ten-Volume Collection - Volume 1
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Volume 1’ is a collection of short stories that includes ’Kerfol’, ’Mrs. Manstey’s View’, ’The Bolted Door’, ’The Dilettante’, and ’The House of the Dead Hand’. Edith Wharton was bor...
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    22,33 €

  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton - A Ten-Volume Collection - Volume 2
    Edith Wharton
    This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in the early 20th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton Volume 2’ is a collection of short stories that includes ’Afterward’, ’The Fullness of Life’, ’The Venetian Night’s Entertainment’, ’Xingu’, ’The Verdict’ ’The Reckoning’, and a sele...
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    22,26 €

  • 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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    12,67 €


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