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Books : Literature & Fiction : Genre Fiction : Horror : Authors, A-Z : ( W ) : Wharton, Edith
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Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
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One of Edith Wharton's greatest works, this classic novel is a portrait of the simple inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village. Crafted with stark simplicity, Ethan Frome portrays the power of convention to smother the growth of the individual. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
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Eighteen-year-old Charily Royall enjoys an idyllic summer romance with visiting architect Lucius Harney, a romance marred by her life in her poor mountain community and the amorous attentions of her stepfather. Reprint.
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They had found each other again in London some three months previously at a dinner at the American Embassy and when she had caught sight of him her smile had been like a red rose pinned on her widow’s mourning.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1907 edition by Macmillan and co., ltd., London.
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters.
Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome-Wharton herself called it “the hot Ethan”-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.
All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers.
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
The Age of Innocence, one of Edith Wharton’s most renowned novels and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York.
The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. When May’s disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her marriage to a Polish Count, her worldly, independent nature intrigues Archer, who soon falls in love with her. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions that forbid a relationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn between possibility and duty.
Wharton’s profound understanding of her characters’ lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen come to life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at the ways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of high society, The Age of Innocence is one of Wharton's finest, most illuminative works.
With an introduction by Peter Washington
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Newland Archer and May Welland have just announced their engagement to New York society, and the match seems perfect -- until Archer meets Countess Olenska, a sharp, beautiful woman in the midst of a divorce . . . it's for good reason this book won Edith Wharton Pulitzer Prize."Is it -- in this world -- vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?"
-- Katherine Mansfield
"There is no woman in American literature as fascinating as the doomed Madame Olenska. . . . Traditionally, Henry James has always been placed slightly higher up the slope of Parnassus than Edith Wharton. But now that the prejudice against the female writer is on the wane, they look to be exactly what they are: giants, equals, the tutelary and benign gods of our American literature."
-- Gore Vidal
"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?"
-- E.M. Forster
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The Touchstone was Edith Wharton's first published novella, and it's spare, perhaps even underwritten. Even so, this Faustian tale of a man who stoops to publish love letters for money has mesmerizing, even dangerous qualities -- it has betrayals, greed, and consequences faced: hidden meanings emerge in places where we do not expect to find them. Perhaps, like Stephen Glennard in The Touchstone, we will go mad with guilt, proving we do after all have a conscience. . . .
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NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader.
A collection of some of the most horrifying stories written in the early part of the century.
In this volume:
The Judge's House by Bram Stoker
An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost by J.S. Le Fanu
The Torture of Hope by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon
The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson
The Lady's Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton
How Love Came To Professor Guildea. by Robert Hichens
"The Iron Shroud" by William Mudford
A must-read for classic and gothic horror fans!
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several influential books, including The Decoration of Houses (1897), her first published work, and Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904). The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. Her other works include: The Greater Inclination (1899), The Touchstone (1900), Sanctuary (1903), The Descent of Man, and Other Stories (1904), The House of Mirth (1905), Madame De Treymes (1907), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories (1908), Ethan Frome (1912), In Morocco (1921), and The Glimpses of the Moon (1921).
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"It is good, ethically and artistically, to read and read again a book with such a lift." -- New York TimesKate Orme was in love -- until she learned her lover's terrible secret. But she married him anyway, out of a sense of obligation . . . and she loved their son, Dick, with all her heart. And she worried for him, even after his father passed -- worried that he'd have to face the same moral crossroads that had destroyed his father. . . .
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Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection of ten Edith Wharton short stories: "The Bolted Door," "His Father's Son," "The Daunt Diana," "The Debt," "Full Circle," "The Legend," "The Eyes," "The Blond Beast," "Afterward," and "The Letters."
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It was very still in the small neglected chapel. The noises of the farm came faintly through closed doors¿voices shouting at the oxen in the lower fields the querulous bark of the old house-dog and Filomena¿s angry calls to the little white-faced foundling in the kitchen.
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Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to do so, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this dark comedy of manners which was immediately recognized as one of her greatest achievements.
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Readers of The Buccaneers, The House of Mirth, and the recently filmed The Age of Innocence may be surprised to learn that Edith Wharton, known for her elegant narrative style, described herself as someone with an intense Celtic sense of the supernatural."" As a ""ghost-feeler,"" she wrote a number of chilling tales that objectify this sense of unease, even terror. With themes of vampirism, isolation and hallucination, they reflect the author's internalized fears and her unhappy experience with marriage. Some of these nine stories appeared in magazines and one, ""The Duchess at Prayer,"" is published again, for the first time since the nineteenth century.
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The following spring when he went abroad Mrs. Memorall offered him letters to everybody from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Louise Michel. She did not include Mrs. Anerton however and Danyers knew from a previous conversation that Silvia objected to people who "brought letters." He knew also that she travelled during the summer and was unlikely to return to Rome before the term of his holiday should be reached and the hope of meeting her was not included among his anticipations.
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One of Edith Wharton's greatest works, this classic novel is a portrait of the simple inhabitants of a 19th-century New England village. Crafted with stark simplicity, Ethan Frome portrays the power of convention to smother the growth of the individual. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.