The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
‘They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.’
Edith Wharton’s most ...
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The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)
Edith Whartonߣs satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her ...
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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline ...
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Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton and Elaine Showalter (ed.)
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In ...
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The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton and Martha Banta (ed.)
Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, ...
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Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf and Urmila Seshagiri (ed.)
Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf’s third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit ...
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The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
‘I shall never forget the day I wrote “The Mark on the Wall” - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. “The Unwritten Novel” was the great discovery, ...
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of ...
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My Ántonia
Willa Cather and Janet Sharistanian (ed.)
My Antonia (1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ...
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Night and Day
Virginia Woolf and Suzanne Raitt (ed.)
Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf’s own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine’s case, her poet ...
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O Pioneers!
Willa Cather and Marilee Lindemann (ed.)
Willa Cather’s second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson and her determination to save her immigrant family’s Nebraska farm. Clear-headed and fiercely ...
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Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay ‘is simply that it should give pleasure…It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its ...
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Selected Stories
Katherine Mansfield and Angela Smith (ed.)
‘I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.’ Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was not the only writer to admire Mansfield’s work: Thomas Hardy, D. H. ...
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A Son at the Front
Edith Wharton and Julie Olin-Ammentorp (ed.)
In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex ...
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)
Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and ...
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The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf and Lorna Sage (ed.)
The Voyage Out (1915) is the story of a rite of passage. When Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship she is launched on a course of self-discovery in a ...
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