Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of …

The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy's inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has also been invited.

Ethan Frome je román americké spisovatelky Edith Wharton z roku 1911, která je držitelkou Pulitzerovy ceny. Novela byla roku 1993 adaptována do filmové podoby, taktéž s názvem Ethan Frome. Tato anglická novela je rozdělena do 10 kapitol. Děj se odehrává ve fiktivním anglickém městečku Starkfield v Massachusetts. Děj …

Ethan Frome je román americké spisovatelky Edith Wharton z roku 1911, která je držitelkou Pulitzerovy ceny. Novela byla roku 1993 adaptována do filmové podoby, taktéž s názvem Ethan Frome. Tato anglická novela je rozdělena do 10 kapitol. Děj se odehrává ve fiktivním anglickém městečku Starkfield v Massachusetts. Děj …

The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, …

Set in the posh milieu that Wharton knew so intimately, The Glimpses of the Moon is a sweeping portrait of a couple caught up in the trappings of privilege-and driven by a reckless, all-consuming ambition....