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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
ON A January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...
Summer
by Edith Wharton
A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.
The Ghost stories of Edith Wharton
by Edith Wharton
It was the autumn after I had the typhoid.
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton
SETTING: The primary set of the play is a library to which FIVE MEN have retired after dinner.
The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton
IT rose for them-their honey-moon-over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were ra...
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
by Edith Wharton
THROUGH it is an exaggeration to say that there are no flowers in Italian gardens.
The Stories of Edith Wharton
by Edith Wharton, Anita Brookner
SHE was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the cameo-brooch divinity...
The Touchstone
by Edith Wharton
Professor Joslin, who, as our readers are doubtless aware, is engaged in writing the life of Mrs. Aubyn, asks us to stat...
The Decoration of Houses
by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman
Rooms may be decorated in two ways: by a superficial application of ornament totally independent of structure, or by mea...
The letters of Edith Wharton
by Edith Wharton, R. W. B. Lewis
UP the long hill from the station at St.-Cloud, Lizzie West climbed in the cold spring sunshine.
Roman Fever and other stories
by Edith Wharton
FROM the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well-cared-for middle age moved across th...
Sanctuary
by Edith Wharton
It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too much the result of selection an...