Edith Wharton

Vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer de 1921, este romance destaca a preocupação da sociedade aristocrata nova-iorquina do fim do século XIX com a chegada da condessa Ellen Olenska....

Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society....

Ethan works his unproductive farm, and struggles to maintain an existence with his suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of desire and duty in Gilded Age New York.

O livro traz uma coletânea de três textos de autoras clássicas do terror. O textos são 'A noiva de Lindorf', de Letitia E. Landon, 'O homem vermelho', de Catherine Gore, 'Depois', de Edith Wharton. Os textos trazem contos aterrorizantes e chocantes que mostram a vanguarda dessas autoras...

Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means....

Un empleado de una compañía eléctrica ha sido enviado a estudiar la zona de un pequeño pueblo de Massachussets. Allí será cobijado, en una noche de tormenta, por Ethan Frome, quien debe soportar diariamente la compañía de su esposa Zeena....

One of America's first novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, Summer shocked readers with its forthright exploration of desire and sexuality when it was first published in 1917. Set in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, it tells the story of Charity Royall...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest danger in a world of elegance and privilege were not scandal itself, but the forbidden desires hidden beneath its glittering surface? In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton draws back the velvet curtains of nineteenth-century New...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A stranger arrives in a snowbound Massachusetts mill town and asks about the ruined man he saw at the station, and the answer takes him back twenty-four years, to a winter that never really ended. Ethan Frome is thirty-eight, runs a failing sawmill and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Afterward is a single-story audiobook edition of Edith Wharton's classic ghostly tale, narrated by an AI voice. Set in an atmospheric English country house, the story follows a couple whose seemingly peaceful new life is shadowed by an elusive presence...

Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next...

A Starkfield, piccolo villaggio del Massachusetts stretto nella morsa di lunghi e implacabili inverni, tutti conoscono Ethan Frome e tutti sembrano custodire il segreto della sua vita...

Ned and Mary Boyne move into an old English country house called Lyng. They are told that the house's ghost appears only "afterward," meaning people recognise it only after an important event has already happened.

In the glittering salons and drawing rooms of Gilded Age New York, where wealth is worshipped and reputations are fragile, Lily Bart is the star of the show.

La novela tiene lugar en el pequeño círculo aristocrático de Nueva York en la década de 1870, que puede mostrar una línea de antepasados que se remonta a los primeros pobladores. Sólo

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Ethan Frome is Edith Wharton’s masterful tale of isolation, duty, and forbidden longing set against the stark backdrop of rural New England. In the frozen town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the quiet and physically broken Ethan Frome toils through a bleak existence alongside his cold...

In A Motor Flight through France, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edith Wharton invites readers on an extraordinary journey through the French countryside at the dawn of the motor age. Based on her 1906 road trip—an ambitious endeavor at a time when automobiles were still a...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.