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Edith Wharton, Stephen Orgel
'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.'Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, i
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Edith Wharton
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Commentaire. :55-64
Autor:
Edith Wharton, Elaine Showalter
`It was not so much his great height that marked him... it was the careless powerful look that he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain.'Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the st
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Edith Wharton
The Stories about New York is a captivating collection of short stories by Edith Wharton, offering a vivid exploration of New York society at the turn of the 20th century. Known for her keen social commentary and richly drawn characters, Wharton delv
Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses (1897), co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collabor
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Edith Wharton
Mrs. Pauline Manford is a busy woman, as any upstanding New York society lady should be. Parties, dinners, charity luncheons, balls, and strict exercise and beauty regimes fill her daily schedule to an exhausting degree. Her secretary can hardly kee
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Edith Wharton
La casa de la Alegría es una crítica mordaz a la alta sociedad neoyorquina de principios del siglo XX. Edith Wharton disecciona las intrincadas dinámicas de poder, las presiones sociales y las expectativas que recaen sobre las mujeres de la época
Let's be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plund
‘A dime a dozen'as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips'but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen'as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathe
‘A dime a dozen'as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips'but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen'as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathe