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| Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. - The Decoration of Houses |
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Edith Wharton excelled not only at creating fiction but at decorating her homes and at analyzing the decor of the homes of her friends and acquaintances. This classic contains Wharton's thoughts on her own "Pavillon Colombe" on the Ile de France, her estate in the Berkshires, the neoclassical houses ...
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$16.00 - $88.00
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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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$14.00 - $16.00
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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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$11.00 - $29.00
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| Edith Wharton - Twilight Sleep |
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Wharton's satirical novel of the Jazz Age, originally published in 1927, portrays a society that seeks refuge from pain in drugs, alcohol, sex, work, and money.
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$1.95 - $11.19
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| Edith Wharton - The Buccaneers |
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Finally finished by writer Marion Mainwaring, Edith Wharton's timeless story is as riveting today as any written in her own time. Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls whose money is too "new" to get them into society.
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$2.00 - $42.00
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| Edith Wharton - A Backward Glance |
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Wharton's fans, as well as readers eager to learn more about the literary, social, and historical forces that shaped this honored American author, are certain to be informed and entertained by this excellent self-portrait. 9 photos.
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$29.00 - $29.00
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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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$10.00 - $10.00
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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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