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Edith Wharton was at the height of her enormous literary powers when she published The Reef in 1912, and everything about this novel suggests a mastery so complete that it can achieve nothing higher. The plot, which tells of the drastic effects of a casual sexual betrayal on the lives of four Americans in France, is expertly turned, suspenseful, continually compelling. An assured, unhurried dramatic instinct governs the great moments of confro...

Originally published in 1907, this little known novel by the author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages.John Amherst, an idealistic middle manager in a New England textile mill, is committed to improving the deplorable working conditions of the laborers in his charge. But upper management, wh...

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence come four masterly short novels of New York during the 19th century, revealing with subtle irony the customs and tribal codes that ruled Society.

The four novels in this Library of America volume show Wharton at the height of her powers as a social observer and critic, examining American and European lives with a vision rich in detail, satire, and tragedy. In all of them her strong and autobiographical impulse is disciplined by her writer's craft and her unfailing regard for her audience.The House of Mirth (1905), Wharton's tenth book and her first novel of contemporary life, was an imm...

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Ethan Frome lives on a poor Massachusetts farm with his wearisome wife, Zeena. When Zeena's cousin Mattie comes to visit, Frome falls deeply in love with her--a fated event that sparks a heartbreaking chain reaction. In addition to "Ethan Frome, this new collection includes four of Wharton's superb short stories: "The Pretext, " "The Aferward, " "The Legend, " and "Xingu.

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people " dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply...

A literary sensation when it was published by Scribners in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American novel to provide a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy, it is the story of the beautiful and beguiling Lily Bart and her ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of a heartless society in which, ultimately, she has...

Satiric portrayal of New York society at the turn of the century in which Lily Bart, the beautiful heroine, is doomed because she is totally dependent on marriage for economic survival.

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Best known for her satirical depictions of the manners and mores of New York society, Edith Wharton shows her mastery of a far different milieu in this classic story of a farmer who is trapped in a loveless marriage to a tyrannical wife.

In addition to Ethan Frome, this Bantam Classic edition contains the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, "The Last Asset", "The Other Two", and "Xingu".

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Over the course of a long and astonishingly productive literary career that stretched from the early 1890s to just before World War II, Edith Wharton published nearly a dozen story collections, leaving a body of work as various as it is enduring. With this two-volume set, The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction: 67 stories drawn from the entire span of her writing life, including the novella-length ...

First published in 1913, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York's high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton's most acclaimed works, Th...

Ein Mann trifft seine tote Geliebte zum Rendezvous, eine Kammerzofe steht ihrer Herrin noch nach ihrem Tod zu Diensten und eine grausam ermordete Ehefrau findet keine Ruhe. Edith Whartons Gespenstergeschichten entführen den Leser in die Welt des Unheimlichen, des Alptraums und des Überwirklichen. Sie gehören neben den Geschichten von Edgar Allen Poe und Henry James zu des besten der Weltliteratur.

Einfühlsamer Entwicklungsroman über das Heranwachsen eines jungen Mannes zum Schriftsteller Wie hoch darf der Preis für einen Lebenstraum sein? Und wie bleibt man sich auf dem Weg dorthin treu? In kraftvollen Bildern erzählt Edith Wharton vom schmerzhaften Prozess künstlerischen Reifens. Pünktlich zum 150. Geburtstag der vielfach ausgezeichneten amerikanischen Klassikerin liegt dieser bewegende Entwicklungsroman nun erstmals in deutscher Sprac...