Autor Edith Wharton

Pokud byste se krásné Newyorčanky Lily Bartové zeptali, co vlastně od života chce, obrátila by k vám svůj okouzlující pohled, nadechla by se… a pak by se pravděpodobně zarazila. Její osud je totiž plný paradoxů...

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Ve strhujícím dvoudílném románu americké klasičky Edith Whartonové - mimochodem vůbec první ženy, která získala Pulitzerovu cenu - před námi ožívá mistrně vykreslená plejáda postav, které prožívají svůj "americký sen" a touží po ukojení svých vášní...

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Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, ...

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"Phil, my dear boy, really — what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?" An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supernatural. Afterwards, when only two guests remain, he tells them a story

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With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains...

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A single woman of 29, Lily Bart is Edith Wharton’s quintessential trapped heroine. Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily understands that she must use her beauty, grace and charm to attain the social position she longs for, but she is caugh

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Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome tells the story of

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Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island...

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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...

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Edith Whartonová, držitelka prestižní Pulitzerovy ceny, je právem označována za první dámu americké strašidelné povídky. Její horové povídky jsou více o strachu - iracionálním a všudypřítomném - než o strašidlech...

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Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate advances of her guardian Mr. Royall, wh

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‘Bunner Sisters’ explores the lives of the impoverished class in 1870s New York. Sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina run a small shop out of a shabby basement on a side street. Despite their misfortunes, they are happy in their small, supportive community

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The Custom of the Country (1913) is a scathing critique of American upward mobility, as told through the journey of overindulged Undine Spragg. She moves from Apex City to New York and then Paris in pursuit of two things - money and status. She will sto

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"You won't know till afterward. You won't know till long, long afterward. " When Ned and Mary Boyne hear that their new house is haunted, they laugh it off and joke that every good house in the countryside must have a ghost for it to be worth purchasing.

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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...

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One of the titles in an exciting series of beloved, charming and spooky ghost stories, brought to life by legendary illustrator Seth...

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'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.'...

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Dvě krátke prózy významné americké prozaičky z přelomu století se odehrávají ve venkovském prostředí v Nové Anglii.

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