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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
13.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Ze ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edith Wharton
20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
At twenty-nine, Lily Bart dazzles at New York balls and soirees, but she knows that her days as a fascinating beauty are numbered, as she has not yet found a husband. But when she is accused of an affair with a wealthy married man, Lily is set to lose her life of luxury, her stability, and any hopes for ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. ...Show more
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