Edith Wharton Summer

Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall’s unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney...

Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome

"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...

Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

Luisterboek (digitaal)

Edith Wharton Ethan Frome

In Ethan Frome volgen we de levens van een aantal mensen in een klein dorpje op het platteland van New England aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw. De verteller is voor zaken in het dorp en raakt daar geïntrigeerd door een gekweld uitziende man, Ethan Frome, en besluit meer over hem te weten te komen. Vervolgens vertelt het boek het levensverhaal van Ethan, zijn ziekelijke vrouw Zeena en haar nicht Mattie, die op fatale wijze tot elkaar veroordeeld raken. Het boek is in 1993 verfilmd met Liam Neeson...

Fictie

Nederlands | 82 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | SAGA Egmont, [København] | 2018

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Edith Wharton Romeinse koorts

Verhalen over vrouwen die zich ontworstelen aan de sociale, mannelijke conventies van de Amerikaanse aristocratie aan het begin van 20e eeuw.

Fictie | Feministische verhalen | Verhalenbundel

Nederlands | ePub2, 2 MB | Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2017

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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

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Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, “The Age of Innocence” is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2017

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