Edith Wharton

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993.

This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseperable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This text includes newly commissioned notes.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Lycksökerskorna är en roman från 1938 av den amerikanske författaren Edith Wharton. Wharton hann dock inte avsluta Lycksökerskorna innan sin död utan den är färdigställd av Marion Mainwaring. Originaltiteln är The Buccaneers. Boken utspelar sig på 1870-talet, och handlar om fyra unga kvinnor från nyrika amerikanska …

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 …