Edith Wharton
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 30
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
1,328 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 47
Publisher
Distributed by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
1,137 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1962]
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Hudson River Bracketed' is a novel about a brilliant woman, Halo Spear, and an uneducated man, Vance Weston, who form a deep bond through literature. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner's Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded
Author
Series
Library of America volume 271
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1,031 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Features four lesser-known works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jazz Age author of The Age of Innocence, including a social-class-mobility romance that is believed to have been the literary inspiration for The Great Gatsby. --Publisher
Author
Series
Library of America volume 122
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2001
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English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 121
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2001
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English
15) Ethan Frome
Language
English
Description
Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another.
Series
Selected shorts volume 19
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
3 sound disc (ca. 3 hrs., 15 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (7 hr., 25 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Mrs Brown: Queen Victoria was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation
Ethan Frome: Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another
Brideshead revisited: When the charming aristocrat Sebastian invites Charles Ryder to his...