In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I "Golden Age" of upper-class society in New York and is... Zobraziť viac
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... Zobraziť viac
An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she... Zobraziť viac
Edith Whartonová, držitelka prestižní Pulitzerovy ceny, je právem označována za první dámu americké strašidelné povídky. Její horové povídky jsou více o strachu - iracionálním a všudypřítomném - než o strašidlech... Zobraziť viac
Pokud byste se krásné Newyorčanky Lily Bartové zeptali, co vlastně od života chce, obrátila by k vám svůj okouzlující pohled, nadechla by se… a pak by se pravděpodobně zarazila. Její osud je totiž plný paradoxů: je půvabnější než všechny její vrstevnice.. Zobraziť viac
A great American novelist offers a scathing attack on the worst kinds of reading. In this subtly devastating work of social criticism, Edith Wharton argues that the growing cultural influence of “mechanical” readers is having a disastrous impact on... 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
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'... 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
One of the titles in an exciting series of beloved, charming and spooky ghost stories, brought to life by legendary illustrator Seth... Zobraziť viac
Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Age of Innocence features the complete text of the first (1921) edition. An introduction by Sheila Liming provides historical and sociocultural context to the novel’s Gilded Age... Zobraziť viac
Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be. To manage a modern household is to hold the family together, staying on trend with all things helpful, but her daughter has horrible taste in married men, her ex-... Zobraziť viac
'A master storyteller' - Elizabeth Strout The power of money threatens young love in this charming story of romantic misadventure by one of the greatest authors of America's Gilded AgeNick Lansing and Susy Branch are young and attractive, but penniless... Zobraziť viac
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... 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
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
Susy Branch and Nick Lansing are typical Wharton heroes: popular, attractive, and much poorer than their “international set” friends. Like Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, the two depend on the largesse of more privileged acquaintances to get by.... 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
