Edith Wharton

Le Temps de l'innocence est un roman américain d'Edith Wharton paru en 1920, pour lequel elle a reçu le prix Pulitzer en 1921. Martin Scorsese s'en est inspiré pour le film du même nom, en 1993.

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. …

Chez les heureux du monde est une œuvre de la romancière américaine Edith Wharton, publiée en 1905. Il s'agit de sa première réussite romanesque, qui connut un grand succès de vente. La traduction française de Charles Du Bos, publiée chez Plon-Nourrit et Cie en 1908, est précédée d'une préface de Paul …

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 …

The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.

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.

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....

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, …