Edith Whartons early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a terrible secret. - Summary by Elizabeth...

Whartons 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of...

The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first...

If you've watched and loved Winona Ryder playing the innocent May Welland in the 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's sweeping novel about class-consciousness in nineteenth...

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England,...

Ela foi uma guerreira até na hora de nascer, sua mãe a teve na calçada de uma rua escura iluminada por uma lanterna de carbureto. Acredita-se que na verdade ela recebeu o nome...

Edith Theresa Hedwing Stein (1891-1942) foi uma filósofa e teóloga alemã. De origem judia, converteu-se posteriormente ao catolicismo, tornando-se carmelita descalça. Morreu...

When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy...

Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribners and the last two in the Century Magazine....

Vizinhos de tempo e espaço.Talvez, por estarmos distraídos, não percebemos o quanto a vida é cheia de nuances que beiram a magia. Um desses detalhes que normalmente nos passam...