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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)

Les journées de Pauline Manford sont réglées comme du papier à musique. Figure incontournable de la vie new-yorkaise, elle court de galas de charité en dîners mondains avec la même abnégation, mais fait peu de cas des désirs de son mari. Esseulé, celui-ci se laisse peu à peu séduire par la légèreté et la beauté vénéneuse de sa belle-fille, Lita, indifférent aux sombres présages qui menacent l'équilibre familial.

Les New-Yorkaises

Édition enrichie (Préface, notes, chronologie et bibliographie)Un après-midi de septembre, à la gare de New York, Mr Selden rencontre par hasard Miss Lily Bart ; elle vient de manquer le train qui devait la conduire chez des amis. Elle accepte de venir prendre une tasse de thé chez l'avocat. C'est l'occasion pour lui de faire une cour discrète à cette jeune femme de vingt-neuf ans, orpheline charmante mais sans argent, qui aimerait faire un riche mariage. Mais, pour elle, ce moment passé seule à seul chez un célibataire est aussi la première entorse aux usages du monde. Évocation brillante de la haute société newyorkaise, où la richesse ne compte qu'affichée, Chez les heureux du monde fonde son intrigue sur le thème du mariage et de l'ascension sociale qu'il permet. Mais Lily Bart confond la vie et les fausses valeurs auxquelles elle sacrifie son âme...

Chez les heureux du monde

Orpheline ruinée, Lay Bart cherche à faire un riche mariage, bien qu'elle aime un avocat, Lawrence Selden.
Trop honnête pour se vendre, mais d'allure trop libre pour garder sa réputation intacte, elle se voit fermer les portes de la haute société... Avec un art digne de son maître Henry James, Edith Wharton peint la haute société new-yorkaise, son éclat et sa richesse, mais aussi sa profonde corruption.

Trois récits, parmi lesquels Beatrice Palmato, un fragment érotique inédit retrouvé en 2001. A sa lumière, les deux nouvelles qui complètent ce recueil, L'ermite et la sauvageonne et Le prétexte, révèlent une nuance rare, comme si depuis toujours l'écriture de Wharton avait langui d'évoluer dans l'éclat aveuglant des enchantements charnels.

Beatrice Palmato, Fragment érotique et autres textes

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

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

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties, " of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music.

It was Madame Nilsson's first appearance that winter, and what the daily press had already learned to describe as "an exceptionally brilliant audience" had gathered to hear her, transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient "Brown coupe."

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