One of the titles in an exciting series of beloved, charming and spooky ghost stories, brought to life by legendary illustrator Seth... Zobraziť viac
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer - a member of one of New York's most prominent families - is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the... Zobraziť viac
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen... 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
Ve strhujícím dvoudílném románu americké klasičky Edith Whartonové - mimochodem vůbec první ženy, která získala Pulitzerovu cenu - před námi ožívá mistrně vykreslená plejáda postav, které prožívají svůj "americký sen" a touží po ukojení svých vášní... Zobraziť viac
Dvě krátke prózy významné americké prozaičky z přelomu století se odehrávají ve venkovském prostředí v Nové Anglii a... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions Ltd: Widely regarded as one of Edith Wharton's greatest achievements, The Age of Innocence is not only... Zobraziť viac
Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without... 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
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language... Zobraziť viac
Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper... Zobraziť viac
Enjoy Edith Wharton’s signature grace and insight in this sumptuous edition of the timeless Gilded Age story The Age of Innocence... 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
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Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland... 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
In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire and social intrigue, Edith Wharton exposes the brittle veneer of civility that masks human ambition and longing. From the sunlit terraces of Rome to the drawing rooms of New York, Wharton’s... Zobraziť viac
A portrait of 1920s New York society. 7.30 Mental uplift. 7.45 Breakfast. 8 Psychoanalysis. 8.15 See cook . And so begins another day in the elegant, langorous world of the Manford family around whom this ironic and amusing study of a family drama... Zobraziť viac
