The House of Mirth, Wharton, Edith

Название: The Age of Innocence
ISBN: 1784878065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784878061
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Описание: Offers theoretical frameworks and empirical approaches to the study of storytelling in tourism at the organisational and destination levels, and from the perspectives of experience providers and customers. The book addresses challenges for tourism organisations and destinations that may be tackled by creatively adopting storytelling as a strategy.

Автор: Wharton, Edith
Название: Age of innocence
ISBN: 000736864X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007368648
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Описание: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Автор: Edith Wharton
Название: The House of Mirth
ISBN: 0141199024 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141199023
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Описание: Lily Bart, beautiful and charming, living among the wealthy families of New York but reluctant to finally commit herself to a husband. In her search for freedom and the happiness she feels she deserves, Lily is ultimately ruined by scandal.

Автор: Wharton, Edith
Название: Summer
ISBN: 0241630819 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241630815
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Описание: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. A novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts.

A sensation on first publication, its honest depiction of a young woman attempting to live on her own terms remains as vital today as it was in 1917.

Автор: Wharton Edith
Название: Ghosts
ISBN: 1681375729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681375724
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself.

No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton's most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton's final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937.

In "The Lady's Maid's Bell," the earliest tale included here, a servant's dedication to her mistress continues from beyond the grave, and in "All Souls," the last story Wharton wrote, an elderly woman treads the permeable line between life and the hereafter.

In all her writing, Wharton's great gift was to mercilessly illuminate the motives of men and women, and her ghost stories never stray far from the preoccupations of the living, using the supernatural to investigate such worldly matters as violence within marriage, the horrors of aging, the rot at the root of new fortunes, the darkness that stares back from the abyss of one's own soul.

These are stories to "send a cold shiver down one's spine," not to terrify, and as Wharton explains in her preface, her goal in writing them was to counter "the hard grind of modern speeding-up" by preserving that ineffable space of "silence and continuity," which is not merely the prerogative of humanity but--"in the fun of the shudder"--its delight.

Contents
All Souls'
The Eyes
Afterward
The Lady's Maid's Bell
Kerfol
The Triumph of Night
Miss Mary Pask
Bewitched
Mr. Jones
Pomegranate Seed
A Bottle of Perrier

Автор: Wharton Edith
Название: The Age of Innocence
ISBN: 1509890033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509890033
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Описание: Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with this witty satire of New York`s upper classes, presented in a beautiful collector`s edition.

Автор: Edith Wharton
Название: The Age of Innocence
ISBN: 1784875740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784875749
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LIONEL SHRIVER

Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society.

To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.

The Vintage Classics edition of The Age of Innocence is published to tie-in with the publication of the Vintage paperback of Hermione Lee's celebrated biography of Edith Wharton

Автор: Wharton Edith
Название: House of Mirth
ISBN: 1982141794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982141790
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: A bestseller when it was published nearly a century ago, this literary classic established Edith Wharton as one of the most important American writers in the twentieth century--now with a new introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan.

Wharton's first literary success--a devastatingly accurate portrait of New York's aristocracy at the turn of the century--is considered by many to be her most important novel, and Lily Bart, her most unforgettable character. Impoverished but well-born, the beautiful and beguiling Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. But with her romantic indiscretion, gambling debts, and a maelstrom of social disasters, Lily's ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of society ultimately leads to her downfall.

From the conventionality of old New York to the forced society of the French Riviera, Wharton weaves a brilliantly satiric yet sensitive exploration of manners and morality. The House of Mirth reveals Wharton's unparalleled gifts as a storyteller and her clear-eyed observations of the savagery beneath the well-bred surface of high society.

Автор: Wharton, Edith
Название: Summer
ISBN: 0241422248 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241422243
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Описание: A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural MassachusettsSeventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free.

But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.

Автор: Wharton, Edith
Название: Ethan frome
ISBN: 136519230X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781365192302
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Описание: Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, 'Ethan Frome' is widely considered her masterpiece. The eponymous Ethan Frome lives in a typical New England village where he makes a living out of his stony farm and exists at odds with his wife Zeena, a whining hypochondriac. When Mattie, Zeena's cousin, comes to live with them, love develops between her and Ethan. They try to end their hapless romance by steering a bobsled into a tree; but both end up disabled, tied to a long life of despair with Zeena. Zeena, however, is transformed into a devoted nurse while Mattie becomes the nagging invalid.

Автор: Wharton Edith
Название: In Morocco
ISBN: 1515401383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515401384
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Автор: Wharton Edith
Название: Ethan Frome (Annotated)
ISBN: 1674939973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781674939971
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Описание: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the timeA young engineer held for his work in a small town in Massachusetts observes a crippled and aged man who collects a magazine and an envelope with medication at the post office. It is winter and the atmosphere of the town is claustrophobic. The polite aspect of man, the age that does not correspond to his physique, the mysterious silences and preventions that his presence in others arouses, his life almost isolated on a ramshackle farm with two women, lead the engineer to wonder why he continues to live in a place where, as the locals say, "almost everyone is ready to leave." But man has a reason for not having left, or for having tried and never achieved: a story in which the fate of fate and all the subtleties of forbidden love are mixed.Ethan Frome (1911) is a nouvelle whose setting? The towns and forests of New England? It is a tradition of the most distinguished American literature (from Hawthorne to Lovecraft) but an exception in an essentially modern and urban novelist like Edith Wharton. However, since its publication, it would be one of his most characteristic works, one of the most celebrated examples of his sensitivity and his style. A true American classic and a real lesson in narrative art.