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This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where youll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.``Fast and Loose, 1877The Touchstone, 1900The Valley of Decision, 1902Sanctuary, 1903The House of Mirth, 1905Madame de Treymes, 1907The Fruit of the Tree, 1907Ethan Frome, 1911The Reef, 1912The Custom of the Country, 1913Summer, 1917The Marne, 1918The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner)The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922Free audiobooks available for:Fast and Loose, 1877 - not available as audiobook at this timeThe Touchstone, 1900The Valley of Decision, 1902 Sanctuary, 1903The House of Mirth, 1905Mad...

Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May''s cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland. Almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer''s life has no place for passion, and, with society on the side of May and all the stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.

Santuario, publicada por primera vez en 1903, es una rarísima novela de Edith Wharton, inédita hasta hoy en castellano. La obra narra la historia de Kate Orme, una mujer joven cuya dicha conyugal se rompe cuando se enfrenta cara a cara con el oscuro secreto que esconde su prometido, Denis Peyton, un hombre de fortuna, pero con un pasado gobernado por las mentiras y por los engaños. Cuando ambos tienen un hijo, y Denis muere, Kate se convence de que el espiritu de su marido permanece en su joven vastago, traspasandole en cierto modo sus vicios morales. Se consagrara desde entonces a luchar para que eso no ocurra. Escrita mientras redactaba La casa de la alegria, Santuario es una pequeña joya oculta de Wharton, de prosa impecable, con momentos en que el suspense se hace casi insoportable. Una novela europea, un melodrama casi jamesiano, que indaga sobre los misterios de la personalidad y las deudas del pasado. Con la precision, la belleza, y el agudo conocimiento de los mas intimos resquicios de la sociedad de la clase alta de Nueva York que la convirtio en una de las grandes voces literarias del siglo XX, Edith Wharton ofrece un sutil relato de la lucha entre la naturaleza y lo adquirido, que domino los primeros años del novecientos.

"Undine Spragghow can you?" her mother wailed, raising a prematurely-wrinkled hand heavy with rings to defend the note which a languid "bell-boy" had just brought in.But her defence was as feeble as her protest, and she continued to smile on her visitor while Miss Spragg, with a turn of her quick young fingers, possessed herself of the missive and withdrew to the window to read it."I guess its meant for me," she merely threw over her shoulder at her mother."Did you EVER, Mrs. Heeny?" Mrs. Spragg murmured with deprecating pride.Mrs. Heeny, a stout professional-looking person in a waterproof, her rusty veil thrown back, and a shabby alligator bag at her feet, followed the mothers glance with good-humoured approval."I never met with a lovelier form," she agreed, answering the spirit rather than the letter of her hostesss enquiry.Mrs. Spragg and her visitor were enthroned in two heavy gilt armchairs in one of the private drawing-rooms of the Hotel Stentorian. The Spragg rooms were known as one of the Looey suites, and the drawing-room walls, above their wainscoting of highly-varnished mahogany, were hung with salmon-pink damask and adorned with oval portraits of Marie Antoinette and the Princess de Lamballe.

On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music.It was Madame Nilssons first appearance that winter, and what the daily press had already learned to describe as "an exceptionally brilliant audience" had gathered to hear her, transported through the slippery, snowy streets in private broughams, in the spacious family landau, or in the humbler but more convenient "Brown coupe."

Having begun my book with the statement that Morocco still lacks a guide-book, I should have wished to take a first step toward remedying that deficiency.But the conditions in which I travelled, though full of unexpected and picturesque opportunities, were not suited to leisurely study of the places visited. The time was limited by the approach of the rainy season, which puts an end to motoring over the treacherous trails of the Spanish zone. In 1918, owing to the watchfulness of German submarines in the Straits and along the northwest coast of Africa, the trip by sea from Marseilles to Casablanca, ordinarily so easy, was not to be made without much discomfort and loss of time. Once on board the steamer, passengers were often kept in port (without leave to land) for six or eight days; therefore for any one bound by a time-limit, as most war-workers were, it was necessary to travel[Pg viii] across country, and to be back at Tangier before the November rains. This left me only one month in which to visit Morocco from the Mediterranean to the High Atlas, and from the Atlantic to Fez, and even had there been a Djinns carpet to carry me, the multiplicity of impressions received would have made precise observation difficult.The next best thing to a Djinns carpet, a military motor, was at my disposal every morning; but war conditions imposed restrictions, and the wish to use the minimum of petrol often stood in the way of the second visit which alone makes it possible to carry away a definite and detailed impression...

This ebook contains the complete works of Edith Wharton: 22 novels and novellas, 11 story collections with 85 stories, 2 collections of poetry, and 9 non-fiction books.The collection is sorted chronologically by literary genres. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. An alphabetical index of stories is also provided. Dates of first publication can be found at the end of the stories.Contents:NOVELS.Fast and Loose.The Touchstone.The Valley of Decision.Sanctuary.The House of Mirth.Madame de Treymes.Fruit of the Tree.Ethan Frome.The Reef.The Custom of the Country.Summer.The Marne.The Age of Innocence.The Glimpses of the Moon.A Son at the Front.Old New York.The Mothers Recompense.Twilight Sleep.The Children.Hudson River Bracketed.The Gods Arrive.The Buccaneers.STORIES.The Greater Inclination: The Muses Tragedy, A Journey, The Pelican, Souls Belated, A Coward, The Twilight of the God, A Cup of Cold Water, The PortraitCrucial Instances: The Duchess at Prayer, The Angel at the Grave, The Recovery, Copy: A Dialogue, The Rembrandt, The Moving Finger, The ConfessionalThe Descent of Man, and Other Stories: The Descent of Man, The Other Two, Expiation, The Ladys Maids Bell, The Mission of Jane, The Reckoning, The Letter, The Dilettante, The Quicksand, A Venetian Nights EntertainmentThe Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories: The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The Last Asset, In Trust, The Pretext, The Verdict, The Pot-Boiler, The Best ManTales of Men and Ghosts: The Bolted Door, His Fathers Son, The Daunt Diana, The Debt, Full Circle, The Legend, The Eyes, The Blond Beast, Afterward, The LettersXingu, and Other Stories: Xingu, The Choice, Coming Home, The Triumph of Night, Kerfol, Autres Temps ..., The Long Run, Bunner SistersHere and Beyond: Miss Mary Pask, The Young Gentlemen, Bewitched, The Seed of the Faith, The Temperate Zone, Velvet Ear-PadsCertain People: Atrophy, A Bottle of Perrier, After Holbein, Dieu damour, The Refugees, Mr. JonesHuman Nature: Her Son, The Day of the Funeral, A Glimpse, Joy in the House, DiagnosisThe World Over: Charm Incorporated, Pomegranate Seed, Confession, Roman Fever, The Looking Glass, Duration11 Uncollected Stories: Mrs. Mansteys View, The Fulness of Life, The Lamp of Psyche, That Good May Come, The Valley of Childish Things, and Other Emblems, April Showers, The Line of Least Resistance, The House of the Dead Hand, The Introducers, Les Metteurs en Scene, Writing a War Story, All SoulsPOEMS.Artemis to Acton, and Other Verse.32 Uncollected Poems.NON-FICTION.The Decoration of Houses.Italian Villas and Their Gardens.Italian Backgrounds.A Motor-Flight through France.Fighting France from Dunkerque to BelportFrench Ways and Their Meaning.In Morocco.The Writing of Fiction.A Backward Glance.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.If you know Starkfield, Massachusetts, you know the post-office. If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade; and you must have asked who he was.It was there that, several years ago, I saw him for the first time; and the sight pulled me up sharp. Even then he was the most striking figure in Starkfield, though he was but the ruin of a man. It was not so much his great height that marked him, for the "natives" were easily singled out by their lank longitude from the stockier foreign breed: it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain. There was something bleak and unapproachable in his face, and he was so stiffened and grizzled that I took him for an old man and was surprised to hear that he was not more than fifty-two. I had this from Harmon Gow, who had driven the stage from Bettsbridge to Starkfield in pre-trolley days and knew the chronicle of all the families on his line.

A two days struggle over the treacherous trails in a well-intentioned but short-winded "flivver", and a ride of two more on a hired mount of unamiable temper, had disposed young Medford, of the American School of Archaeology at Athens, to wonder why his queer English friend, Henry Almodham, had chosen to live in the desert.Now he understood.He was leaning against the roof parapet of the old building, half Christian fortress, half Arab palace, which had been Almodhams pretext; or one of them. Below, in an inner court, a little wind, rising as the sun sank, sent through a knot of palms the rain-like rattle so cooling to the pilgrims of the desert. An ancient fig tree, enormous, exuberant, writhed over a whitewashed well-head, sucking life from what appeared to be the only source of moisture within the walls. Beyond these, on every side, stretched away the mystery of the sands, all golden with promise, all livid with menace, as the sun alternately touched or abandoned them.Young Medford, somewhat weary after his journey from the coast, and awed by his first intimate sense of the omnipresence of the desert, shivered and drew back. Undoubtedly, for a scholar and a misogynist, it was a wonderful refuge; but one would have to be, incurably, both.

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The Gods Arrive continues the story of Vance Weston and Halo Spear Tarrant of Hudson River Bracketed. At the end of Hudson River Bracketed, Vances wife Laura Lou has died and Halo, although married to the aristocratic Lewis Tarrant, acknowledges her feelings for Vance. In The Gods Arrive, Tarrant refuses to give Halo a divorce. Halo, however, has just inherited from her relative, Elinor Lorburn, the Hudson River Bracketed house called the Willows, along with an independent income.

Al amable mundo de convenciones sociales estrictas en el que se mueve, aparentemente sin roces ni contrariedades, la alta sociedad de Nueva York de finales del siglo pasado, regresa de Europa la inquietante condesa Olenska. Independiente, osada, diferente, Ellen involucrara muy pronto en su misterio a su joven primo Newland Archer y perturbara sin poder evitarlo el encanto de una vida social que ignora de manera voluntaria su inminente fin.En el fondo de esta extraordinaria historia de una gran pasion subyace el conflicto entre dos mundos : el de las viejas familias patricias norteamericanas y el de los nuevos ricos, quienes, al terminar la novela, se han apoderado ya de las costumbres y de los espiritus. Martin Scorsese extrajo de La edad de la inocencia una bellisima pelicula que protagonizaron Michelle Pfeiffer, en el papel de la condesa Olenska, Daniel Day-Lewis y Winona Ryder

A principios de los años veinte del siglo pasado Kate Klephane se refugia en un pueblecito de la costa Azul, donde nadie sabe o quiere recordar que a los veinte años huyó de su mansión de Nueva York con un amante, dejando atras al marido y a su hija Anne, entonces una niña. Los años han ido pasando, y ahora es Anne quien reclama la presencia de su madre. Kate acude a la llamada, y pronto disfrutaran de esa intimidad que une a madres e hijas.

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