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Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence. In addition to writing several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories.

This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents and the following works: Afterward, The Age of Innocence, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses, Autres Temps., Bunner Sisters, The Choice, Coming Home, Crucial Instances, The Custom of the Country, The Descent of Man & Other Stories, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 1, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Volume 2, Ethan Frome, Fighting France, The Fruit of the Tree, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Greater Inclination, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The House of Mirth, In Morocco, Kerfol, The Long Run, Madame de Treymes, The Reef, Sanctuary, Summer, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Touchstone, The Triumph of Night, The Valley of Decision, Xingu.

Collected Works of Edith Wharton (31 books in one volume)

An alternate cover edition can be found here or here The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires.

Chez Les Heureux Du Monde

Madame de treymes et autres nouvelles

Nan and Jinny St George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of the 1870s, however, only those with old money can achieve the status of the elite, and it is here that the sisters seem doomed to failure.Nan's new governess, Laura Testvalley, herself an outsider, takes pity on their plight and launches them instead on the unsuspecting British aristocracy. Lords, dukes, marquesses and MPs, it seems, not only appreciate beauty, but also the money that New York's nouveaux riches can supply.A love story of love and marriage among the old and new moneyed classes, The Buccaneers is a delicately perceptive portrayal of a world on the brink of change.

Les Boucanières

Mrs Clingsland découvre avec désolation un matin l'image que lui renvoie son miroir : celle d'une femme qui n'a plus vingt ans. Mrs Attlee, sa confidente, trouve un subterfuge pour la sortir de sa torpeur : elle lui transmet des messages d'amour d'outre-tombe du jeune Harry, noyé lors du naufrage du Titanic. Spiritisme, apparition de fantômes, messages de l'au-delà... Edith Wharton révèle avec un humour piquant que les fantômes ne survivent que dans l'imagination de ceux qui les évoquent.

Le miroir

Le triomphe de la nuit

L'autobiographie de cette romancière née dans le Vieux New York en 1862. Lié à Henry James, Paul Bourget et Anna de Noailles, elle mena une existence dans une gangue dorée qui explique le défoulement canalisé de ses romans.

Les chemins parcourus

Cette longue nouvelle d'Edith Wharton (lauréate du Prix Sulitzer en 1921, avec Le temps de l'innocence) est sensiblement différente de la plupart de celles de sa production où elle laisse souvent libre cours à une étude fine et sensible de la bonne société américaine et du rang social des personnages qui y sont décrits. L'Ermite et la Femme sauvage nous plonge dans une rencontre insolite, celle d'un ermite qui a fui la sauvagerie des humains et d'une femme pour le moins sauvage et guérisseuse à ses heures. On verra cette nouvelle teintée d'ardente religiosité, totalement hors sujet par rapport à sa production habituelle, sous un oeil particulier quand on sait qu'elle fut conçue comme l'allégorie ou le portrait biographique de la relation qu'entretint l'auteure avec Henry James.

Age of Innocence

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