«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...

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...

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biograph...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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, ...

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...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

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...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of desire and duty in Gilded Age New YorkA respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan's most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May Welland, a beautiful young woman of fine social standing. But the arrival of the worldly and exotic Countess Olenska, May's cousin, changes everything. Ellen Olenska's scandalous intention to div...