Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome

"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...

Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edith Wharton The age of innocence

De liefde tussen een jonge, gescheiden vrouw en de man van haar nicht, spelend tegen de achtergrond van de New Yorkse society aan het einde van de vorige eeuw

Fictie

Engels | 300 pagina's | Penguin Books, Harmondsworth [etc.] | 1974

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Edith Wharton The buccaneers

a novel

Genegeerd door de betere kringen vertrekken twee Amerikaanse zusjes op aanraden van hun gouvernante naar Engeland, waar ze trouwen met Britse aristocraten.

Fictie

Engels | 406 pagina's | Fourth Estate, London | 1993

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