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| Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters |
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A trio of incisive novellas includes <IT>Ethan Frome<RO>, about a New England farmer on an unproductive farm who must choose between his duty to care for his difficult, invalid wife and his love for her vivacious young cousin, as well as <IT>Summer<RO>, the story of a young woman's social and sexual ...
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| Edith Wharton - The Mother's Recompense |
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Opening on the French Riviera among a motley community of American expatriates, The Mother's Recompense tells the story of Kate Clephane and her reluctant return to New York society after being exiled years before for abandoning her husband and infant daughter. Oddly enough, Kate has been summoned b ...
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| Edith Wharton - The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton |
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One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a gh ...
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| Edith Wharton - A Son at the Front |
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Edith Wharton's 1922 novel about the collision between a group of uninvolved American expatriates in Paris and patriotic French nationals, when the half-French son of an American painter's decision to fight in World War I.
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$11.00 - $12.00
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| Edith Wharton - Roman Fever and Other Stories |
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These short works display Wharton's talent as a satirist "skilled at dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social constrictions" (Cythina Griffin Wolfe, from the Introduction).
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$12.00 - $12.00
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| Edith Wharton - Madame De Treymes and Three Novellas |
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"Madame de Treymes", Edith Wharton's first publication after the highly successful "The House of Mirth", is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Wharton's own entre into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells t ...
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| Edith Wharton - The Eyes |
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The Debt, The Daunt Diana, The Moving Finger, and The Eyes. Unabridged "Ralph Cosham's interpretations of Wharton's short stories are gems of understated eloquence. They are beautiful prose pieces beautifully delivered". -- The Society for Performance Literature
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$1.99 - $12.95
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| Edith Wharton - Madame De Treymes |
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Wharton's first work after THE HOUSE OF MIRTH was MADAME DE TREYMES, a portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. It tells the story of a transplanted New Yorker, Fanny Frisbee, who is unhappily married to a marquis, and of her American lover who comes to Paris to take her away. Th ...
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