The age of innocence /

作者：  by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis.

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简介：　　edith wharton's masterpiece,first published in 1920,brings to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of a gilded age.set among the very rich in 1870s new york,it tells the mesmerizing story of a man caught between his passion and society's demands.newland archer is a young lawyer engaged to marry virginal socialite may welland,when he meets her cousin,countess ellen olenska,a woman unbound by convention and surrounded by scandal.archer considers his fiancee an innocent ,her worldly cousin a femme fatale.as all three are arawn into a love triangle filled with sensuality,subtlety,and betrayal,archer faces a harrowing choice between happiness and the social code that has ruled his entire life,the result ia a tale of thwarted love filled with irony and surprise,struggle and acceptance,recipient of the first pulitzer prizefor fiction ever awarded to a woman,this gregt novel of manners paints a timeless portrait of "society"still unmatched in american literature-an arbitrary,capricious social elite that professes inviolable standards,but will readily abolish them for money,or abandon them for desire. 　　 　　 作者简介: 　　 edith wharton the upper stratum of new york society into which edith wharton was born in 1862provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist.educated by tutors and governesses,she was raised for only one career:marriage.but her marriage,in 1885,to edward wharton was an emotional disappointment ,if not a disaster.she suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1984.in spite of the strain of her marriage,or perhaps because of it ,she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.

Summer /

作者：  by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Susan Minot.

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简介： 在线阅读本书 Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summercreated a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening. Summeris the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women’s romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society. Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Summerremains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

Ethan Frome and other short fiction /

作者：  by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by Mary Gordon.

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简介：     On a bleak New England farm, a taciturn young man has resigned himself to a life of grim endurance. Bound by circumstance to a woman he cannot love, Ethan Frome is haunted by a past of lost possibilities until his wife’s orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives and he is tempted to make one final, desperate effort to escape his fate. In language that is spare, passionate, and enduring, Edith Wharton tells this unforgettable story of two tragic lovers overwhelmed by the unrelenting forces of conscience and necessity.          Included with Ethan Frome are the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, “The Last Asset,” “The Other Two,” and “Xingu.” Together, this collection offers a survey of the extraordinary range and power of one of America’s finest writers.