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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happines ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in "Penguin Classics". Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a ...Show more
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A young couple's love is threatened by the destructive power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age In this beautiful novel, Edith Wharton perceptively describes the seductions and temptations of high society with all her trademark wit and irony. Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are you ...Show more
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Contribution by); Elizabeth Ammons (Contribution by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society - against whose rigid mores she often rebelled - Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth, her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Ba ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
$15.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
EDITH WHARTON journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country.
Summer by Edith Wharton
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Clothbound Classics Ser.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithA novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
$23.00 AUD
Category: Vintage Classics
VINTAGE DECO- Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'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 arr ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Laura Ciolkowski (Introduction by)
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
The Age of Innocenceby Edith WhartonThe Age of Innocence, novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1920. The work presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the late 19th century. The story is presented as a kind of anthropological study of this society through references to the families and thei ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here, she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine Sprague, who is a monster of selfishness and honestly doesn't know it. Although the worlds she wants to conquer have vanished, Undine herself is amazingly recognizable. She marrie ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Penguin War Classics | Series: VMC Designer Collection
In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a fearsome double foreshadows the fate of a rich young man; a married farmer is bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell saves a woman's reputation. Brittany conjures ancient c ...Show more