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Age of Innocence (Word Cloud Classics) by Edith Wharton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Word Cloud Classics
In a society where people dreaded scandal more than disease, passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Whartons The Age of Innocence is set amidst the pre-World War I Golden Age of upperclass society in New York, and is framed by societys strict moral code. When soon-to-be-we ...Show more
American Classics Collection (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain
$70.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The American Classics Collections box set includes The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, with new introductions and bespoke covers. Part of the Macmillan Collec ...Show more
Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton
$89.99 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors
Written in collaboration with celebrated American architect Codman, Wharton's first book is a comprehensive look at the history and character of turn-of-the-century interior design, moving from historical traditions to the distinctive styles of contemporary taste.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set against the frozen waste of a harsh New England winter, Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" is a tale of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual tensions, published with an introduction and notes by Elizabeth Ammons in "Penguin Classics". Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a ...Show more
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happines ...Show more
Fighting France by Edith Wharton
$0.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
As nuanced in her observations of human behavior as she is in her vivid depictions of French landscape and architecture, Wharton fully exploits her unique position as consort to Walter Barry, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, which allows her unparalleled access to life in the tren ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface, and has been printed to a high-quality production specification, to create a series that every l ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
$20.69 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a ...Show more
Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton
$75.00 NZD
Category: Architecture & Interiors
ITALIAN VILLAS AND THEIR GARDENS by Edith Wharton. From the original publication of 1904, this edition in is a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America's greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden archite ...Show more
Sanctuary by Edith Wharton
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
As her marriage to an eminent and wealthy bachelor approaches, Kate Orme should feel nothing but bliss. Yet, when she learns of Denis' guilty secret she becomes painfully aware of her fiance's flawed morality. Determining that no child of hers should inherit such character traits, she does everything in ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton; Colm Toibin (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer o a member of one of New York's most prominent families o is living the life that has always been expected of him- he is a successful lawyer engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited a ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
$18.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more