Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton - Valley of Decision

Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking...

Robert Keiper 16 hours 51 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Fruit of the Tree

When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and second marriages....

Margaret Espaillat 15 hours 35 minutes

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General Fiction

Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York «Society», who spent much of her life in France. In this novel she tells the story of Undine Sprague, the thrice- (or more) married, upwardly...

Isosceles and 10 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Literary Fiction

Edith Wharton - Custom of the Country (version 2)

Edith Wharton's 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine is determined to acquire...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - House of Mirth (Version 2)

Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 14 hours 8 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Edith Wharton - House of Mirth (Version 3)

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a...

Jan Moorehouse 12 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature,...

Elizabeth Klett 12 hours 32 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence

In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic «old revolutionary stock» families that rule New York's social life. Under the rules of this...

Brenda Dayne 12 hours 32 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Son At The Front

This is an overlooked novel by the author of House Of Mirth, Age Of Innocence, and more. She already became the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for literature before this novel was written. Edith Wharton is...

Beth Thomas and 6 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Age of Innocence (version 2)

Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds...

Elizabeth Klett 9 hours 57 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts

Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 34 minutes

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Romance

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Edith Wharton - Reef

George Darrow, Anna Leath’s first love, is finally coming from London to propose to her. However, he drifts to an affair with Sophy Viner, Anna’s daughter’s naïve and young governess. Sophy’s relationship with Darrow...

Elli and 8 more 9 hours 33 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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