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1912

Edith Wharton Title : House of Mirth
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP


€ 9,00

Edith Wharton Title : Old Maid
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS

'Aunt' Charlotte gave up her daughter to afford the child a prosperous position in 19th-century society. Years later, on the eve of the girl's wedding, Charlotte's suppressed anguish surfaces. Wharton's keen eye for observing and articulating telling details of class and society elevates a soap opera scenario into a compelling drama.

€ 5,40

Wharton Edith, Franzen Jonathan (INT) Title : Three Novels of New York
Author: Wharton Edith, Franzen Jonathan (INT)
Publisher: Penguin Classics

For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen.

Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York.

The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée's cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced.


€ 22,30
2012

Wharton Edith; Codman Ogden jr. Title : La decorazione della casa
Author: Wharton Edith; Codman Ogden jr.
Publisher: Elliot

Scritto in collaborazione con l'architetto Ogden Codman Jr. e pubblicato nel 1897, 'La decorazione della casa' è il primo libro di Edith Wharton, tuttora considerato uno dei testi fondamentali del design di interni. Nel libro viene tracciata un'ampia panoramica, arricchita da moltissime illustrazioni e fotografie, sulla storia e sul cambio di orientamento stilistico che caratterizzò la fine del Diciannovesimo secolo, attraverso un'accurata analisi delle tradizioni nel campo della decorazione per arrivare alle tendenze dell'epoca. I principi e gli ideali qui espressi vennero applicati in seguito nell'ideazione e costruzione della villa di Berkshire Hill, nel Massachusetts, conosciuta come 'The Mount', le cui stanze testimoniano il gusto impeccabile e raffinato della Wharton alle migliaia di persone che ancora oggi giungono in visita da ogni parte del mondo. Da una delle più grandi scrittrici americane, un'opera preziosa non solo sul piano architettonico e decorativo ma anche sociale e culturale, un contributo per gli studiosi e per gli amanti della materia, una mappa dell'evoluzione del gusto su entrambe le sponde dell'Oceano Atlantico.
€ 30,00     Scontato: € 28,50
1911

Wharton Edith Title : The House of Mirth
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Trafalgar Square

The tragic fall of one of the most heartbreaking characters in American literature, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of 19th century New York high society
 
Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury, and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move: to abandon her sense of self and a chance of love for the final soulless leap into a mercenary union. Her time is running out, and degradation awaits. Edith Wharton's masterful novel is a tragedy of money, morality, and missed opportunity.

€ 7,00
2011

Wharton Edith; Chondrogiannis A. (cur.) Title : La porta sbarrata
Author: Wharton Edith; Chondrogiannis A. (cur.)
Publisher: Mattioli 1885

'Non aveva alcun fiuto per gli affari, né testa per i numeri, e nemmeno la più fievole perspicacia che lo guidasse nei misteri del commercio. Voleva viaggiare e scrivere, questi erano i suoi desideri. E mentre gli anni si trascinavano e lui raggiungeva la mezza età, una folle disperazione lo pervase.'
€ 10,90     Scontato: € 10,36

Wharton Edith Title : Scenari italiani
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Aragno


€ 12,00

Wharton Edith; Reim R. (cur.) Title : Il Giorno dei morti
Author: Wharton Edith; Reim R. (cur.)
Publisher: Coniglio Editore

'Racconti di fantasmi' propone il meglio del nero e del fantastico - con particolare riguardo alla ghost story - in traduzioni ineccepibili e con un corredo critico-bibliografico agile ma accurato. Autori famosi o ingiustamente dimenticati, testi 'classici' e affascinanti riscoperte si alterneranno nel piano della collana come tasselli, per comporre una vera e propria mappa di questo genere, che riserva ancora stupefacenti sorprese. I volumetti, pur perfettamente autonomi, sono concepiti come un unicum da collezione e impreziositi da appendici che di volta in volta proporranno un autore storico del 'racconto di spettri' italiano: dagli scapigliati, come Tarchetti, Zena, Dossi e Calandra, a Capuana, Fogazzaro, Verga, Pirandello, fino alle insospettabili Matilde Senio e Grazia Deledda... Ma 'Racconti di fantasmi' riserva sorpresa: le versioni a fumetti - italiane e non - dei più significativi capolavori della ghost story e del tale of terror scelti e presentati da Paolo Di Orazio.
€ 10,50     Scontato: € 9,98

Wharton Edith Title : Ethan Frome
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Montecovello

Il romanzo racconta di Frome, della moglie perennemente ammalata e della sua donna di compagnia, delineando in modo superbo i personaggi mentre vengono coinvolti inesorabilmente in una battaglia domestica dalle radici profonde.
€ 7,00
1910

Wharton Edith Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Harperpress

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
€ 4,20     Scontato: € 3,99

Wharton Edith, Horovitch David (NRT) Title : The Age of Innocence (CD Audiobook)
Author: Wharton Edith, Horovitch David (NRT)
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc

Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs. Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, and not afraid to flout convention. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen?

€ 29,90

Wharton Edith, Toibin Colm (FRW) Title : Fighting France
Author: Wharton Edith, Toibin Colm (FRW)
Publisher: Hesperus Pr

As nuanced in her observations of human behavior as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploited her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which allowed her unparalleled access to life in the trenches. Sensitive without sentimentality, and offering a valuable and extremely rare female perspective of a war dominated by the male viewpoint, this series of articles is nothing less than an inspirational testament to the strength of the human spirit at a time of the greatest adversity. 


€ 15,20
2010

Wharton Edith; Bly Nellie; Cetti L. (cur.) Title : Da fronti opposti. Diari di guerra (1914-1915)
Author: Wharton Edith; Bly Nellie; Cetti L. (cur.)
Publisher: Viella

Due donne americane di fronte alla Grande Guerra europea: Edith Wharton, scrittrice già affermata che in quegli anni sta scrivendo 'L'età dell'innocenza', e Nellie Bly, giornalista famosa, che nel 1890 aveva stupito il mondo circumnavigando la terra in 72 giorni sulla falsariga del Giro del mondo in 80 giorni di Verne. Tra le poche voci femminili a raccontare in diretta la prima guerra mondiale, la Wharton e la Bly, con le loro cronache limpide e coinvolgenti, non sembrano parlare neppure dello stesso conflitto, tanto è diverso il loro approccio alla scrittura. Eppure la guerra, osservata da due donne schierate su fronti opposti, così lontane nelle scelte di vita e nello stile narrativo, si rivela essere in definitiva la stessa 'maledetta follia'.
€ 19,00     Scontato: € 18,05
2009

Wharton Edith, Gordon Mary (INT) Title : The House of Mirth
Author: Wharton Edith, Gordon Mary (INT)
Publisher: Library of America

?If there is a more highly regarded female American author of the twentieth century, her name doesn?t readily come to mind.?
--John Updike

Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society?against whose rigid mores she often rebelled?Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn among the upper class of turn-of-the- century New York, touching upon the insidious effects of social convention and the sexual and financial aggression to which free-spirited women were exposed. ?A frivolous society,? Wharton wrote, ?can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.?

Library of America Paperback Classics feature authoritative texts drawn from the acclaimed Library of America series and introduced by today?s most distinguished scholars and writers. Each book features a detailed chronology of the author?s life and career, and essay on the choice of the text, and notes.

The contents of this Paperback Classic are drawn from Edith Wharton: Novels, volume number 30 in the Library of America series. It is joined in the series by three companion volumes, gathering novellas, short stories, and other writing by Edith Wharton.


€ 9,50

Wharton Edith, Shreve Anita (FRW), Moore Susanna (AFT) Title : Ethan Frome
Author: Wharton Edith, Shreve Anita (FRW), Moore Susanna (AFT)
Publisher: Signet Classic

A masterwork From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Nineteenth-century New England villager Ethan Frome is tormented by his love for his ailing wife's cousin. Trapped, he may ultimately be destroyed by that which offers his greatest chance at happiness...


€ 5,40

Wharton Edith, Showalter Elaine (TRN) Title : Ethan Frome
Author: Wharton Edith, Showalter Elaine (TRN)
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome is the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In her Introduction, the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
€ 9,30

Edith Wharton Title : Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: WORDSWORTH EDITIONS


€ 3,50
2008

Wharton Edith Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton's most famous novel, is a love story, written immediately after the end of the First World War. Its brilliant anatomization of the snobbery and hypocrisy of the wealthy elite of New York society in the 1870s made it an instant classic, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but he also recognizes its limitations. His engagement to the impeccable May Welland assures him of a safe and conventional future, until the arrival of May's cousin Ellen Olenska. Independent, free-thinking, scandalously separated from her husband, Ellen forces Archer to question the values and assumptions of his narrow world. As their love for each other grows, Archer has to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.
Stephen Orgel's introduction and notes set the novel in the context of the period and discusses Wharton's skilfull weaving of characters and plot, her anthropological exactitude, and the novel's autobiographical overtones.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
€ 12,40

Wharton Edith, Raver Lorna (NRT) Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith, Raver Lorna (NRT)
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc

The perfect marriage between the wealthy, worldly Newland Archer and the beautiful and docile May Welland is threatened by the arrival from Europe of May's cousin, the fascinating Countess Olenska.
€ 17,90

Wharton Edith, Raver Lorna (NRT) Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith, Raver Lorna (NRT)
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc

The perfect marriage between the wealthy, worldly Newland Archer and the beautiful and docile May Welland is threatened by the arrival from Europe of May's cousin, the fascinating Countess Olenska.
€ 80,30

Wharton Edith, Brick Scott (NRT) Title : Ethan Frome
Author: Wharton Edith, Brick Scott (NRT)
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc

Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer, is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena's cold, conniving character. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie arrives to help care for her, Ethan is immediately taken by Mattie's warm, vivacious personality. They fall desperately in love as he realizes how much is missing from his life and marriage. Tragically, their love is doomed by Zeena's ever-lurking presence and by the social conventions of the day. Ethan remains torn between his sense of obligation and his urge to satisfy his heart's desire up to the suspenseful and unanticipated conclusion. Perhaps reflective of Wharton's own loveless marriage, this sophisticated, star-crossed love story vividly depicts her abhorrence of society's relentless standards of loyalty. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most popular and best-known works.

€ 17,40

Wharton Edith, Shriver Lionel (FRW) Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith, Shriver Lionel (FRW)
Publisher: Random House Uk Ltd

Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry the beautiful and conventional May Welland, Newland Archer falls in love with her very unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. The consequent drama, set in New York during the 1870s, reveals terrifying chasms under the polished surface of upper-class society as the increasingly fraught Archer struggles with conflicting obligations and desires. The first woman to do so, Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this dark comedy of manners which was immediately recognized as one of her greatest achievements.

€ 10,00

Wharton Edith Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc


€ 19,80

Wharton Edith, Barreca Regina (INT), Saunders Judith P. (AFT) Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith, Barreca Regina (INT), Saunders Judith P. (AFT)
Publisher: Signet Classic

Engaged to marry socialite May Welland, Newland Archer meets Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal, and is forced to decide between happiness and the social code that has ruled his life. Reissue.
€ 6,00

Wharton Edith Title : The House of Mirth
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Everymans Library

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

 

Introduction by Pamela Knights

 

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century.

 

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her resistance to the rules of the social elite endangers her many marriage proposals. As Lily spirals down into debt and dishonor, her story takes on the resonance of classic tragedy. One of Wharton's most bracing and nuanced portraits of the life of women in a hostile, highly ordered world, The House of Mirth exposes the truths about American high society that its denizens most wished to deny.

 

 


€ 21,40

Wharton Edith, Washington Peter (INT) Title : The Age of Innocence
Author: Wharton Edith, Washington Peter (INT)
Publisher: Everymans Library

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

 

The Age of Innocence, one of Edith Wharton's most renowned novels and the first by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, exquisitely details the struggle between love and responsibility through the experiences of men and women in Gilded Age New York.

 

The novel follows Newland Archer, a young, aristocratic lawyer engaged to the cloistered, beautiful May Welland. When May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, fleeing her marriage to a Polish Count, her worldly, independent nature intrigues Archer, who soon falls in love with her. Trapped by his passionless relationship with May and the social conventions that forbid a relationship with Ellen, Archer finds himself torn between possibility and duty.

 

Wharton's profound understanding of her characters' lives makes the triangle of Archer, May, and Ellen come to life with an irresistible urgency. A wry, incisive look at the ways in which love and emotion must negotiate the complex rules of high society, The Age of Innocence is one of Wharton's finest, most illuminative works.

 

With an introduction by Peter Washington


€ 21,40

Wharton Edith, Lee Hermione (INT) Title : Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters
Author: Wharton Edith, Lee Hermione (INT)
Publisher: Everymans Library

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

 

These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters.

 

Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome-Wharton herself called it “the hot Ethan”-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.

 

All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the shorter fiction of one of our greatest writers.


€ 20,30

Wharton Edith, Gibson Flo (NRT) Title : The Buccaneers
Author: Wharton Edith, Gibson Flo (NRT)
Publisher: Audio Book Contractors


€ 30,40

Wharton Edith Title : Fighting France. Reportage di viaggi e di guerra
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Avagliano

Allo scoppio della Prima guerra mondiale, la celebre scrittrice americana scrisse questo reportage dal fronte francese. La Wharton compone uno splendido ritratto della Francia in guerra, ricco di istantanee memorabili: le campagne apparentemente lontane dal conflitto, le città sconvolte dalla marcia delle reclute, la folla incredula che si accalca davanti al manifesto che proclama la mobilitazione generale. I resoconti bellici di 'Fighting France' sono diventati rapidamente un classico del genere, un esempio imprescindibile per tutti i corrispondenti di guerra.
€ 13,00

Wharton Edith Title : L'età dell'innocenza
Author: Wharton Edith
Publisher: Rizzoli

'Un romanzo sulla libertà che non ha mai esaurito il suo potere sovversivo, perché la libertà di cui parla la Wharton non è affatto legata alla società, ormai tramontata, che lei racconta. Ellen Olenska, rarissimo esempio di un grande personaggio femminile positivo, ci insegna che la vera libertà è la consapevolezza e si conquista attraverso la capacità di guardare le cose come sono. L'amaro che ne consegue è senza tempo.' Caterina Bonvicini
€ 10,00     Scontato: € 9,50


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