Edith Wharton

Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story is one of only two novels to be set in New England by Wharton, who was best known for her portrayals of upper-class New York society. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel …

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly …

Texte révisé suivi d'une biographie d'Edith Wharton. Inscrite dans le paysage hivernal d'un petit village rural du Massachusetts, la tragique histoire d'amour impossible entre Ethan Frome, homme taciturne brisé par la vie, et Mattie Silver, douce et délicate cousine de son acariâtre épouse, est âpre et poignante. …