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2nd Hand Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University. With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the ...Show more
AGE OF INNOCENCE - Insight Text Guide by WHARTON EDITH
Category: Education | Series: Insight Text Guide Ser.
Insight Study Guides are written by experts and cover a range of popular literature, plays and films. Designed to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries. ...Show more
Age of Innocence (Word Cloud Classics) by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics
In a society where people dreaded scandal more than disease, passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Whartons The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I Golden Age of upperclass society in New York, and is framed by societys strict moral code. When soon-to-be-we ...Show more
American Classics Collection (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The American Classics Collections box set includes The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, with new introductions and bespoke covers. Part of the Macmillan Collec ...Show more
Edith Wharton - Four Novels of the 1920s - The Glimpses of the Moon; a Son at the Front; Twilight Sleep; the Children by Edith Wharton; Hermione Lee (Editor)
Category: Accessories | Series: Library of America Edith Wharton Edition Ser.
Acclaimed biographer Hermione Lee presents four "remarkable and surprising" books that collectively capture World War I and the Jazz Age through the eyes of one of our greatest novelists. Edith Wharton achieved the height of her critical and popular success in the 1920s, following The Age of Innocence, ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Ze ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift S.
From the author of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Set in New England, a farmer struggles to survive a bare existence, tethered to his farm, first by his helpless parents and then by a hypochondriac wife. Yet, when his wife's alluring cousin comes to stay, his dreams are rekindled.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics
Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and tha ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in "Penguin Classics". Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a ...Show more
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A young couple's love is threatened by the destructive power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age In this beautiful novel, Edith Wharton perceptively describes the seductions and temptations of high society with all her trademark wit and irony. Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are you ...Show more
Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Blues Ser.
Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounte ...Show more