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  • Bunner Sisters

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Two sisters keep a small shop in a New York basement, selling artificial flowers and buttons, and buy a clock for a birthday — which means meeting the man who repairs it. Wharton, born into old New York money and the first woman to take the Pulitzer, wrote this novella early, could not place it for twenty years, and it is the only thing she wrote entirely about poverty. It is also the best short ... Read more

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  • The Reef

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Love & Society
    A diplomat, delayed in Paris by a letter putting him off, spends a few days with a girl he meets by chance — and months later finds her installed in the French château where he has come to marry the widow he has loved for years. Wharton wrote this in 1912 in the middle of her own affair and her divorce; James called it her finest book. Nothing is confessed and everything is understood, which is ... Read more

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  • Madame de Treymes

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Love & Society
    An American widow in Paris wants to marry a compatriot, and her French husband's family will not release her — and the sister-in-law who explains why is doing something more complicated than refusing. Wharton lived in Paris and knew the faubourg from inside; this 1907 novella is her most compressed study of two societies misreading each other, and Madame de Treymes's motive is the best thing in it ... Read more

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  • The Touchstone

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    A man sells the love letters a famous dead novelist wrote him — anonymously, for the money to marry — and then must live inside the marriage the money bought. Wharton, first woman to win the Pulitzer, published this novella in 1900; it is the earliest statement of her permanent subject, which is not adultery or money but the small betrayal a decent person makes and then has to eat, daily, for ... Read more

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  • The Age of Innocence

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Love & Society
    Newland Archer is engaged to the correct girl when her cousin returns from Europe with a failed marriage behind her and no intention of pretending otherwise. Wharton was born inside old New York and dismantled it from the inside; this was the first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer, and she wrote it in France, in her fifties, about a world that had already vanished. ... Read more

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  • The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    The early stories, where the machinery is already assembled: a wife who will not divorce, a man who inherits a manuscript, the muse of a dead poet, a couple who meet in the afterlife and find the arrangement is not what either was promised. Wharton was born into the old New York money whose rules she spent her career dissecting, and became the first woman to take the Pulitzer. These are the pieces ... Read more

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  • The Age of Innocence

    by Edith Wharton ...
    When love and duty collide, every choice comes at a price. In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton masterfully portrays the elegance and complexity of New York's Gilded Age, where tradition, reputation, and personal desire shape every decision. Through unforgettable characters and emotionally rich storytelling, the novel explores the delicate balance between societal expectations and the pursuit of ... Read more

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  • The Age of Innocence

    by Edith Wharton ...
    «The Age of Innocence» tells the story of a forthcoming society wedding, and the threat to the happy couple from the appearance in their midst of an exotic and beautiful femme fatale, a cousin of the bride. Newland Archer is a distinguished lawyer looking forward to his marriage to shy, lovely, sheltered May Welland. But when he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, scandalously separated from her ... Read more

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  • House of Mirth

    by Edith Wharton ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • The Custom of the Country

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Signature Editions
    Edith Wharton’s biting satire about a relentlessly ambitious New York City social climber, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.Set near the turn of the 20th century, The Custom of the Country follows Undine Spragg, an uncultured Midwesterner who arrives in New York determined to conquer high society. Quickly learning how to bend and break the unwritten social ... Read more

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  • The Glimpses of the Moon

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Series series Love & Society
    Two charming people with no money marry on the understanding that either may leave the moment a better match appears, and spend a year borrowing other people's villas and honeymooning at their expense. Wharton, first woman to win the Pulitzer, wrote this in 1922; the joke is that the arrangement works exactly as designed and neither of them can bear it. ... Read more

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  • The Age of Innocence

    by Edith Wharton ...
    New York, 1872. Newland Archer is the perfect gentleman, engaged to the perfect girl, gliding through the perfect world of opera boxes and ballrooms. Then Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, trailing scandal and the faint scent of freedom, and his flawless life shatters like crystal on marble. The first novel by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is no costume drama — ... Read more

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