«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 European husband, a Polish count, he falls hopelessly in love and blights his marriage to May by fail...

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This ebook compiles Edith Wharton's complete novels, including "The Age of Innocence", "Ethan Frome", "The Custom of the Country" and "The House of Mirth". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists a...

Society, desire, and the hidden truths beneath elegant lives. In The Complete Works of Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton presents a remarkable collection of novels, stories, and writings that explore the complexities of society, class, and human relationships. This comprehensive volume brings together her most influential works, offering vivid portrayals of high society and the quiet struggles beneath its polished surface. Through rich storytelling and keen observation, Wharton reveals themes o...

Step into the refined, seductive, and often cruel world of Edith Wharton — the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of America's greatest literary voices. The Complete Works of Edith Wharton brings together her masterful novels, novellas, and shorter fiction, offering a sweeping portrait of society, ambition, desire, and the unspoken rules that shape human lives. From the aching restraint of The Age of Innocence to the moral complexity of Ethan Frome, the glittering so...

It tells the story of Lily Bart, a young woman from New York City's high society who is caught in a web of social expectations, wealth, and love.Lily Bart is a beautiful and intelligent woman whose position in society depends on her ability to secure a wealthy husband. As she navigates the glittering world of the New York elite, she finds herself entangled in a series of social intrigues, manipulations, and moral compromises.Despite her charm and wit, Lily's desire for financial security a...

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds,...

A rich visitor from the city seduces a local woman, but their affair may not survive the season, in this novel by the Pulitzer-winning author of Ethan Frome.Charity Royall was taken in as a child by an educated man in a small New England town. Her origins on "the mountain"—towering in the distance and whispered about in dark tones—remain murky to her. She only knows she is expected to be grateful for being rescued, and for her improved circumstances. Yet, ...

This book-collection file includes 13 novels (Touchstone, Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, House of Mirth, Fruit of the Tree, Ethan Frome, The Reef, the Custom of the Country, Bunner Sisters, Summer, Age of Innocence, Glimpses of the Moon), 6 collections of stories (Crucial Instances, The Greater Inclination, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The Descent of Man, and Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton), a book of verse (Artemis to Actaeon), and two non-fiction books (Fighti...

Elegance, passion, and social ambition in America's Gilded Age. The Complete Works of Edith Wharton offers readers the definitive collection from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. From the poignant love story of The Age of Innocence to the tragic realism of Ethan Frome and the scathing social critiques of The House of Mirth, Wharton's novels explore the complex intersection of tradition, desire, and societal expectation. A master of psychological insight and dramatic s...

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. ... The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award."

A New York Review Books OriginalEdith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of...