2. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Buy on Amazon Add to library Newland Archer, one of 1900s New York’s most eligible bachelors, has been looking for a traditional wife, and May Welland seems just the girl — that is until Newland meets entirely unsuitable Ellen Olenska. He must ...
Edith Wharton – The Custom of the Country Willa Cather – A Lost Lady Elizabeth Taylor – The Wedding Group P. G Wodehouse – Summer Lightning Pamela Frankau – The Willow Cabin Janet Frame – Living in the Maniototo Penelope Lively – Moon Tiger Sandra Cisneros – The House on Mango Stree...
Edith Wharton's THE AGE OF INNOCENCE a novel (that won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize) about life in New York's 1870s wealthy, high society. Provided by Everett Kaser Beatrix Potter's THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKINBeatrix Potter's second book. It's ALL images, NO text (well, there's text, bu...
Consequently, some critics consider Anna and Sophy to represent two separate but intertwined sides of Edith Wharton’s personality – Anna as the morally upright, sexually repressed Edith, restrained by her conventional marriage, and Sophy as the bright, passionate woman (or alter-ego) Fullerton unl...
Age of Innocence, Theby Edith Wharton A story of the upper classes of Old New York, where everybody has to play the accepted role to be welcome. Aladdin and the Wonderful Lampby Unknown Alexander's Bridgeby Willa Cather A story about a doomed love affair and the lives it destroys. Cathe...
Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies, Joan Larkin and David Bergman, Series Editors)by William Storandt Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920by Edith Wharton and Sarah Bird Wright ...
Alberti’s poem, written in 1937, is marked with the same destruction and scars of war, but it is also a poem of resistance and hope, where the future is bright, or as the title of the second volume says, “the country will be a paradise.” Sixty-six years later, it’s a ...
When the Clock Brokeby John Ganz Animal Joyby Nuar Alsadir Middlemarchby George Eliot Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimersby Jean Strouse Twilight Sleepby Edith Wharton The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald A Son at the Frontby Edith Wharton ...
41 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle A drug addict chases a ghostly dog across the midnight moors. 40 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Lily Bart craves luxury too much to marry for love. Scandal and sleeping pills ensue. ...
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of art. One of the stories, "The Twilight of the God," is written as a...