“Newland felt more and more embarrassed. The men were all staring into the box where May was sitting between her mother and her aunt, he didn’t recognise the lady in the strange dress, and... Zobraziť viac
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) wrote carefully structured fiction that probed the psychological and social elements guiding the behavior of her characters... Zobraziť viac
For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton’s birth: her three greatest novels in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen... Zobraziť viac
Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful, and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble, and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her... Zobraziť viac
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'... Zobraziť viac
Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, ... Zobraziť viac
Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper... Zobraziť viac
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an extraordinarily vivid, delightfully satirical record of a vanished world... Zobraziť viac
As the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer was born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty. Though sensitive and intelligent, Archer respects the rigid social code of his class and plans to marry... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things’ ... Zobraziť viac
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations... Zobraziť viac
As a departure from Edith Wharton's customary novels of urbane New York life, Ethan Frome takes the reader to rural Massachusetts and the small, closed community of Starkfield... Zobraziť viac
