Edith Wharton
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English
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Newland Archer is a young lawyer, a member of New York's high society, and engaged to be married to May Welland. Countess Ellen Olenska is May's cousin, and wants a divorce from the Polish nobleman she married. Intelligent and beautiful, she comes back to New York where she tries to fit into the high society life she had before her marriage. Her family and former friends, however, are shocked by the idea of divorce within their social circle, and...
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Everyman's library volume no. 46
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English
Description
Hackles bristle discreetly, lips curl ever-so politely, and every breach of good taste is carefully recorded, as social aspirant Lily Bart launches a desperate bid for a place on the city's elite social register.
3) Novels
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Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
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Library of America volume 271
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Features four lesser-known works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jazz Age author of The Age of Innocence, including a social-class-mobility romance that is believed to have been the literary inspiration for The Great Gatsby. --Publisher.
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Library of America volume 47
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Everyman
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"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...