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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence  

Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989834
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199540013.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199540013
‘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 ... More
Aurora Floyd

Aurora Floyd  

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and P. D. Edwards (ed.)

Published in Print: 
11 December 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923067
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555161.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555161
abstract ‘With Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs Henry Wood, as one of the ruling ... More
The AwakeningAnd Other Stories

The Awakening: And Other Stories  

Kate Chopin and Pamela Knights (ed.)

Published in Print: 
14 August 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920851
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536948.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536948
‘She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.’ Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new ... More
The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country  

Edith Wharton and Stephen Orgel (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990045
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555123.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555123
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 ... More
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April  

Elizabeth von Arnim and Isobel Maddison (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Apr 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989544
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198859093.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198859093
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 ... More
Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome  

Edith Wharton and Elaine Showalter (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989742
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538096.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538096
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 ... More
The Female Quixoteor The Adventures of Arabella

The Female Quixote: or The Adventures of Arabella  

Charlotte Lennox, Margaret Dalziel (ed.), and Margaret Anne Doody

Published in Print: 
17 April 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921636
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199540242.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199540242
The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her ... More
The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth  

Edith Wharton and Martha Banta (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989759
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538102.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538102
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, ... More
Jacob’s Room

Jacob’s Room  

Virginia Woolf and Urmila Seshagiri (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989384
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780192857392.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780192857392
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 ... More
Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction

Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction (2 ed.)  

Virginia Woolf, Bryony Randall (ed.), and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Apr 2022
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989483
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198838135.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198838135
Virginia Woolf’s short fiction has long been acknowledged as the place where she tried out some of her more experimental techniques before adopting and adapting them for use in her ... More
Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret  

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Lyn Pykett (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 January 2012
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923357
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199577033.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199577033
It only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court.’ When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future ... More
The Last Man

The Last Man  

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Morton D. Paley (ed.)

Published in Print: 
14 August 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921759
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552351.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552351
The last man! I may well describe that solitary being’s feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.’ Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). ... More
The Life of Charlotte Brontë

The Life of Charlotte Brontë  

Elizabeth Gaskell and Angus Easson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
25 June 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921971
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199554768.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199554768
It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one ... More
The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction

The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction  

Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990021
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199554997.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199554997
‘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, ... More
Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway  

Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989599
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536009.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536009
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 ... More
My Ántonia

My Ántonia  

Willa Cather and Janet Sharistanian (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989766
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538140.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538140
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 ... More
Night and Day

Night and Day  

Virginia Woolf and Suzanne Raitt (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990090
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555604.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199555604
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 ... More
O Pioneers!

O Pioneers!  

Willa Cather and Marilee Lindemann (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191989896
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199552320.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199552320
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 ... More
Orlando

Orlando (2 ed.)  

Virginia Woolf and Michael H. Whitworth (ed.)

Published in Print: 
Dec 2014
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990243
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199650736.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199650736
Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, ... More
Selected Essays

Selected Essays  

Virginia Woolf and David Bradshaw (ed.)

Published in Print: 
May 2009
Published Online: 
May 2023
eISBN: 
9780191990120
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199556069.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199556069
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 ... More

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