Bücher von Edith Wharton

In EDITH WHARTON ABROAD, Sarah Bird Wright has carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing that convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. This collection spans a period of three decades and takes the reader with Wharton from France to Italy and to Greece. Included is an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, THE CRUISE OF THE VANDIS, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I.

'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.

Lily Bart ist jung, schön und ein gern gesehener Gast auf den gesellschaftlichen Events der New Yorker High Society. Doch mit dem Ruin ihrer Familie kann sie ihr Leben in den feinen Kreisen nur fortführen, wenn sie einen reichen Ehemann findet. Lily muss sich entscheiden: Will sie als bloßes Schmuckstück an der Seite eines Mannes Reichtum und Luxus - oder will sie ein Leben gemäß ihrer tatsächlichen Gefühle? Wie in »Zeit der Unschuld« zeigt sich die Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Edith Wharton auch in ihrer 1905 erschienenen Sozialsatire als kühle Beobachterin, die mit bitterböser Raffinesse die schillernden und oberflächlichen Kreise der Reichen und Schönen zerlegt. - Mit einer kompakten Biographie der Autorin.

Geld oder Liebe, Leidenschaft oder Pflicht? Der ehrgeizige New Yorker Anwalt Newland Archer muss sich entscheiden: Will er sein Leben mit May teilen, einer jungen Frau aus gutem Hause und wie geschaffen für sein berufliches Fortkommen? Oder steht er zu seinen Gefühlen für Mays Cousine Ellen, die im Begriff ist, gegen alle Konventionen zu verstoßen? Edith Wharton gelang mit dieser bewegenden Dreiecksbeziehung ein preisgekröntes Meisterwerk.

In dem freudlosen, abgeschiedenen Ort Starkfield in Neuengland, der die meiste Zeit des Jahres im Schnee versinkt, sind auch die Gefühle der Menschen zu Eis erstarrt. Die Pulitzerpreisträgerin Edith Wharton erzählt von einer untergegangenen Welt, die in den Figuren ihres berührenden Romans erschreckend lebendig wird. Den Farmer Ethan Frome verbindet eine Dreiecksbeziehung mit seiner Frau und deren jüngerer Cousine Mattie. Ihr Leben ist geprägt von Liebe und Einsamkeit, von sexueller Frustration und moralischer Verzweiflung. Eine archetypische Geschichte von leidenschaftlichem Aufbegehren und tragischer Passivität, von Sprachlosigkeit und der Unfähigkeit, dem Schicksal zu entrinnen. Ein kompositorisches Meisterwerk, pure Erzählmagie!

Partylust und Lebensfrust.Auf Dauer einen Platz in New Yorks High Society zu behaupten, ist ein aufreibender Fulltimejob. Wer wüsste das besser als Pauline Manford? Diszipliniert unterwirft sie sich und ihr Leben dem Diktat der besseren Kreise: trainiert körperliche und mentale Fitness, pflegt die richtigen Kontakte und ein wohldosiertes soziales Engagement. Alles ist gut, solange der Terminkalender voll ist. An mehr als einen leichten Dämmerschlaf ist in diesem lärmenden Partygetöse nicht zu denken, denn wer schläft, sündigt nicht - und wer nicht im Gespräch bleibt, ist schnell so langweilig wie der Trend der vorletzten Saison ...

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome (1911) is a novel about emotional frigidity. Set in New England in the fictional town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the story concerns Ethan Frome and his cantankerous wife Zeena. Mattie comes to help her cousin Zeena keep house, and her youthful beauty and good humor fascinate Ethan. Zeena decides to replace Mattie with a hired housemaid, but the lovers find it hard to separate and decide to sledge into a tree and end their lives.

Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, The House of Mirth is perhaps Edith Wharton's most popular work - a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age which transcends the novel of manners, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions.

"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?¿ -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author¿s well-known depictions of upper class life in New York, but also exhibits her remarkable talent in tales of humorous irony, history and the supernatural.Originally published in 1904 The Descent of Man and Other Stories features the author¿s nuanced prose and sharply observed characters in a chain of unforgettable tales. In several Wharton examines marriage, which was frequently arranged in her era. The author digs deep into her characters to find what can hold a marriage together or slowly pull it apart. The difficulty of establishing and maintaining honest relations in a highly stratified and proper society is a consistent challenge for her characters, especially in the title story in which a man of principle finds himself misunderstood and forced to potentially compromise his beliefs. Wharton also affords glimpses into the trials of being an author, drawing both drama and humor from the profession. There¿s a chance to sample the author¿s ghostly fiction, which has long been appreciated by aficionados of the macabre. This is a showcase for the author¿s range of interests and for her remarkable ability to tell memorable stories that strike to the heart.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Descent of Man and Other Stories is both modern and readable.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider''s knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women''s Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her 15 novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir.