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Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

A collection of classic short stories, including works by Herman Melville, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane....

Summer details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, 18-year-old, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child....

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society...

Enduring stories that are as relevant today as they were when written at the turn of the century by influential women writers....

Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount....

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors....

Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming a women who will succeed....

From New York to Europe, the apartments of the nouveau riche to ancient French estates, Edith Wharton tells the story of Undine Spragg....

This carefully curated collection brings together some of the most influential and enduring works in American literature.

Un empleado de una compañía eléctrica ha sido enviado a estudiar la zona de un pequeño pueblo de Massachussets. Allí será cobijado, en una noche de tormenta, por Ethan Frome, quien debe soportar diariamente la compañía de su esposa Zeena....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society....

The cliché is of the artist starving in his garret. Be it poet or author it seems romantic but lacks somewhat in the comforts and quality of life. Somewhat better then to live and write in perhaps the Classical Cultural centre of the world; Italy.

Rescued from a poverty-stricken mountain life, Charity Royall lives as ward to Lawyer Royall in the small New England town of North Dormer. However, Charity is bored by her job and feels thwarted by the order that governs her society–until a young man plucks her from North Dormer life.

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Set against the stark, icy backdrop of a New England winter, Ethan Frome is a haunting tale of love, betrayal, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations.

Spanning four decades in the mid-nineteenth century, the interconnected novellas of Old New York lay out the complex and inscrutable codes, customs, and taboos of New York society in classic Wharton style....

Charity va ser “portada de la Muntanya” quan era petita. No conserva cap record de la seva vida anterior, a banda dels rumors vagues de la gent de North Dormer...