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In the glittering salons and drawing rooms of Gilded Age New York, where wealth is worshipped and reputations are fragile, Lily Bart is the star of the show.

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

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....

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

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

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

A full-cast dramatisation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York. In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation...

This is a complex and honest portrait of a simple country girl as she confronts her sexuality and the all-encompassing forces of maturity....

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.

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”

Set in early 20th century New York, Edith Wharton's classic novel follows the changing fortunes of the beautiful Lily Bart, an impoverished socialite who relies on the kindness of rich friends to move in glamorous society....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Four is the fourth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Four features 12 timeless works that largely focuses on the greats of American and British literature.

Lewis Raycie is sent on a Grand Tour of Europe with instructions from his father to acquire a collection of accepted Art Works. His father's dream is to own a Raphael....

Beautiful, sophisticated and endlessly ambitious Lily Bart endeavours to climb the social ladder of New York's elite by securing a good match and living beyond her means....

A terrifying and macabre collection of anatomically inspired stories by the masters of gruseome fiction....

The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader or listener - such is the quality with which they are usually written....

Selections include "The Robber Bridegroom" by Washington Irving, "The Stolen White Elephant" by Mark Twain, "Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Mission of Jane" by Edith Wharton, and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe....

Perhaps best known for her classic novel The Age of Innocence Wharton loved the short story form because its brevity allowed her to concentrate on telling the story....

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.