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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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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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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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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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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