Edith Wharton
Рождение : 1862-01-24,
Смерть : 1937-08-11
История
From Wikipedia
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862–August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
Novel
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Novel
Романтическая история показывает великолепие и лицемерие высшего света конца 80-х годов 19-го века. Ньюлэнд Арчер — преуспевающий адвокат, в глубине души желающий настоящей страсти в своем обыденном существовании. Помолвка с милой и благовоспитанной Мэй Уэлланд обещает ему благодушную и спокойную жизнь. Но когда кузина Мэй возвращается в Нью-Йорк после публичного скандала, Ньюлэнд попадает в сети ее тайной власти и невыразимой красоты. Теперь он вынужден сделать выбор между миром, который он знает, и миром, о котором он мог только мечтать.
Novel
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, spirited person. She and Ethan fall in love much to the dismay of Zeena.
Novel
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
Story
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.
Story
An American couple buy an English Manor House - complete with resident sypernatural forces...
Novel
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unmarried woman with gambling debts and an uncertain future, Lily is destroyed by the society who created her...
Novel
1860 год, в день свадьбы Делии Ловел и богатого управляющего банком Джима Рэлстона, появляется Клем Спендер, который отсутствовал два года в связи со службой в армии, но за которого Делия обещала выйти замуж. Узнав о предательстве любимой, Клем впал в отчаяние. Кузина Делии по имени Шарлота, с малых лет влюблена в Клемма и сжалившись над молодым человеком и пришла к нему, чтобы утешить. Вернулась юная Шарлотта домой далеко за полночь.
На следующий день Клем решил вернуться в армию и вскоре пал на поле битвы. Четыре года спустя, Шарлотта открывает дом для военных сирот, среди которых находится девочка Тина — внебрачная дочь Шарлотты от погибшего Клема. Шарлотта скрывает тайну рождения ребенка, так как надеется выйти замуж за Джима Джо, но этому не суждено случиться. Делия узнав, что Тина дочь ее бывшего возлюбленного Клема сделает все, чтобы ее сестра навсегда осталась «Старой девой»…
Novel
An engaged attorney and a divorcee fall for each other in 1870s Manhattan.
Novel
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
Writer
Directed by Wesley Ruggles.
Novel
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
Novel
Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lily's slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society.
Novel
Undine Spragg, a cunning and attractive woman living in New York during the early part of the Twentieth Century, rises to the top of the city's high society.