Edith Wharton

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is a poignant tale of love and desire set against the backdrop of Gilded Age New York, brought to life in this stunning clothbound edition from Macmillan Collector's Library. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers or wonderful additions to your own collection. This edition features an introduction by award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk, author of Outline. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege and strict duty as the scion of one of New York's leading families, Newland Archer finds his path questioned with the arrival of the free-spirited Countess Olenska and her clouds of European sophistication. As his fascination with her grows, he discovers the bonds of the society that shaped him are not so easily escaped. The Age of Innocence is at once a satirical record of a now-vanished world, and a timeless story of frustrated love. It was the inspiration for Martin Scorsese's film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.

Wharton's antiwar masterpiece probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front (1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on the brink of war. Expatriate American painter John Campton, whose only son George, having been born in Paris, must report for duty in the French army, struggles to keep his son away from the front while grappling with the moral implications of his actions. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, A Son at the Front is a poignant meditation on art and possession, fidelity and responsibility in which Wharton tells an intimate and captivating story of war behind the lines.

Wharton's antiwar masterpiece probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front (1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on the brink of war. Expatriate American painter John Campton, whose only son George, having been born in Paris, must report for duty in the French army, struggles to keep his son away from the front while grappling with the moral implications of his actions. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, A Son at the Front is a poignant meditation on art and possession, fidelity and responsibility in which Wharton tells an intimate and captivating story of war behind the lines.

Wharton's antiwar masterpiece probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Inspired by a young man Edith Wharton met during her war relief work in France, A Son at the Front (1923) opens in Paris on July 30, 1914, as Europe totters on the brink of war. Expatriate American painter John Campton, whose only son George, having been born in Paris, must report for duty in the French army, struggles to keep his son away from the front while grappling with the moral implications of his actions. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love, art and self-sacrifice, national loyalties and class privilege, A Son at the Front is a poignant meditation on art and possession, fidelity and responsibility in which Wharton tells an intimate and captivating story of war behind the lines.

Paris, New York, London och Tokyo - fyra världsmetropoler, fyra noveller som tar dig med på en resa i både tid och rum. Städerna är skildrade av några av våra största klassiker. Följ med till Honoré de Balzacs omsorgsfullt beskrivna Paris och dess slingrande gator, till Edith Whartons societetsliv på övre Manhattan och på Charles Dickens nattliga vandringar i ett ruffigt London. Och för första gången någonsin i svensk översättning: den japanska novellkonstens fader, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, som här tar dig med till några sömnlösa dygn i förra sekelskiftets Tokyo. Asken innehåller fyra böcker: Honoré de Balzac - En gata i Paris och dess invånareEdith Wharton - Kvicksand Charles Dickens - Natt i LondonRyunosuke Akutagawa - Kugghjul"Finaste gå bort-presenten" FeminaNovellix ger ut stora läsupplevelser i litet format! En novell per bok, och alltid med originalomslag av svenska formgivare, illustratörer och konstnärer. Novellerna säljs både styckvis och förpackade i fina presentaskar.

New York runt år 1900. Upper East Side, Metropolitan Museum - Edith Wharton, författare till bland annat romanen Oskuldens tid, tar oss i Kvicksand med till det aristokratiska, gamla Manhattan. Denna mångbottnade novell bjuder på oväntade vändningar och ironiska efterdyningar, och är ett triangeldrama mellan en distingerad mor, hennes passionerade son och hans fritänkande käresta. Mrs Quentin sjönk ned på bänken och sträckte ut en hand till flickan. "Sätt er hos mig", sade hon. Miss Fenno damp ned bredvid henne. Hos båda kvinnorna var den känslomässiga anspänningen så stark att de inte fick fram ett ord. Flickan skälvde fortfarande, och det var mrs Quentin som först återfick fattningen. "Ni säger att ni har plågats", började hon till sist. "Tror ni inte att jag har det?"

Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton used her inside knowledge of upper class New York life in the early part of the 20th century as the basis for her 1905 novel, "The House of Mirth." The novel is the classic and tragic portrayal of Lily Bart, an intelligent New York socialite during the Victorian era, who seeks to secure a husband and a place in the society life of New York's upper class. Lily, who was raised to strive for a socially and economically prosperous marital union, finds herself at the edge of thirty, her youthful beauty fading and her matrimonial prospects dwindling. The novel follows Lily's descent down the social ladder over a period of two years as she circles the margins of New York's upper class drawing closer to what seems an inevitable loneliness. Central to the theme of the novel is how the Victorian era offered women relatively few other alternatives to achieve upward social and economic mobility than through marriage. A classic depiction of a bygone era, "The House of Mirth" is at once a detailed portrait of New York society life and a social satire which harshly criticizes the moral failings of the rich. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new life on the betrayal of another’s love slowly begins to eat away at him, and Margaret’s memory has a power that can reach him from beyond the grave. The first of Edith Wharton’s works depicting life in “old New York”, The Touchstone is an acutely observed novella , and an exploration of the tension between self-serving opportunism and the desire to live a moral life.

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York’s most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May’s cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him. An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s – the world in which Edith Wharton grew up – The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.

A Son at the Front is Edith Wharton's extremely personal novel about love, loss, and the intersection of war and art. It's a powerful, moving portrait of empathy and loss. One of Wharton's very best novels. ." . . A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant novel chronicling the effects of WWI on painter John Campton and his only child." --Publisher's Weekly

A Son at the Front is Edith Wharton's extremely personal novel about love, loss, and the intersection of war and art. It's a powerful, moving portrait of empathy and loss. One of Wharton's very best novels. ." . . A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant novel chronicling the effects of WWI on painter John Campton and his only child." --Publisher's Weekly

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