Edith Wharton

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Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome’s days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena’s youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband’s feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and that they seem to be reciprocated, the scene is set for a confrontation that will lead to heartbreak, misery and tragedy. A marked contrast to the mordantly satirical novels of manners set among New York high society for which she is best known, this story set in rural Massachusetts is considered by many to be Edith Wharton’s highest achievement, and is unsurpassed as a study of forbidden love and thwarted desire.

Plongez-vous dans l' l gance touffante de la haute soci t new-yorkaise du XIXe si cle, o les r gles sociales sont aussi immuables que les murailles des manoirs en pierre. "L' ge de l'Innocence", l'oeuvre enchanteresse d'Edith Wharton, d peint un monde de convenances raffin es et de passions touff es, o les apparences gouvernent les coeurs et les esprits. Dans ce roman envo tant, nous faisons la connaissance de Newland Archer, un jeune homme charmant et promis un avenir brillant, qui se retrouve tiraill entre deux femmes exceptionnelles. D'un c t , il y a May Welland, la douce et innocente fianc e, qui incarne la perfection les vertus et les moeurs de l' poque victorienne. De l'autre, il y a la fascinante comtesse Ellen Olenska, une femme myst rieuse et nigmatique, de retour New York apr s une vie tumultueuse en Europe. Elle apporte avec elle un parfum de scandale et de libert qui d fie les normes tablies de la haute soci t . travers les yeux de Newland Archer, nous assistons une danse subtile entre la passion interdite et les obligations sociales, entre le d sir et la r pression. Edith Wharton d peint avec une ma trise exquise les jeux de s duction et les conflits int rieurs qui tourmentent ses personnages, nous plongeant au coeur de leurs dilemmes motionnels. Le roman brille galement par sa description magistrale de l' poque, o les codes de conduite rigides fa onnent chaque aspect de la vie sociale. L'auteure r ussit faire revivre cette p riode avec une pr cision saisissante, o chaque geste, chaque parole et chaque regard peuvent bouleverser l' quilibre d licat de cette soci t apparemment parfaite. Au-del de la trame amoureuse, "L' ge de l'Innocence" est une r flexion intemporelle sur les limites de la libert individuelle face l'oppression des conventions sociales. C'est un voyage dans l' me humaine, o les motions brutes et les d sirs inavou s se heurtent la fa ade glaciale du conformisme. Ce chef-d'oeuvre intemporel d'Edith Wharton, impr gn d'une atmosph re d' l gance d su te, vous tiendra en haleine jusqu' la derni re page. "L' ge de l'Innocence" est bien plus qu'une simple histoire d'amour, c'est une plong e envo tante dans une poque r volue o les coeurs battaient l'unisson des conventions sociales, et o l'amour v ritable se heurtait l'inflexibilit d'une soci t en qu te de perfection illusoire. Un roman qui vous marquera longtemps apr s avoir referm ses pages, et qui vous fera d couvrir le talent ind niable de l'une des plus grandes crivaines de tous les temps.

A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work, discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters' from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.

Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, with a foreword bySofia CoppolaConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the journey of Undine Spragg from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us a detailed glimpse of the America's interior and its nouveau riche fringes. Through a heroine who is as vain, spoiled and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating, and through the intricate plot of Undine's marriages and affairs, Wharton conveys a vision of a social class that is both supremely informed and supremely disenchanted.

'The war went on; life went on; Paris went on.' In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted. Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.

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 in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life-or mercilessly destroy it.