Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing--these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. And though...

Seven short stories from one of the most celebrated authors of the early twentieth century have been updated with an eye toward readability for modern readers. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited versions in appendices. The Hermit and the Wild Woman: One escapes from war, the other from a convent, only to find themselves together in their solitude. The...

Early twentieth-century American author Edith Wharton's 1928 novel about a group of seven step-siblings who strike up a relationship with a solitary bachelor on a yacht while hoping that their parents' reconciliation lasts. One of Mrs. Wharton's latest novels, this is a story of expatriate Americans in the 1920s. Its theme is the predicament of children whose rich, pleasure-mad parents progress through marriages and divorces as casually as they flit...

The first of CSA Word's popular women's short story collections An outstandingly good and very unusual collection - The Sunday Times This selection of stories relates the many experiences and complexities of womanhood; sometimes joyful, sometimes sad but always enriching. With stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Gaskell - it includes Ladies in Lavender by William J. Locke, the inspiration for the film of the same name starring...

Excerpt: "To treat of the practice of fiction is to deal with the newest, most fluid and least formulated of the arts. The exploration of origins is always fascinating; but the attempt to relate the modern novel to the tale of Joseph and his Brethren is of purely historic interest. Modern fiction really began when the "action" of the novel was transferred from the street to the soul; and this step was probably first taken when Madame de La Fayette,...

Six short stories, psychic in character.

In the title story, a refined ladies' lunch club and its members' pretensions to cultural understanding, come under Edith Wharton's keen satiric eye. Also included in this 1916 collection are "Coming Home," "Autres Temps," "Kerfol," "The Long Run," "The Triumph of Night," "The Choice," and "Bunner Sisters."

"An entertaining novella by a master storyteller recounts a free-spirited young American's attempts to extricate herself from a failed marriage to a member of a conservative and aristocratic French family. Wharton writes from the vantage point of an astute observer who has lived and traveled widely in Europe, offering a concise view of this clash of both individuals and modern civilizations. A selection of shorter works is also included"--