Dans la bonne société new-yorkaise de la fin du xixe siècle, où les conventions sociales sont sacro-saintes et où règne la quête permanente du "bon ton", le jeune Newland Archer s'apprête à épouser l
Newland Archer belongs to the late 19th century upper class of New York. He is happily engaged to May Welland. But one day Countess Ellen Olenska, Mays cousin, returns from Europe. The Countess is independent, brave; very different from the rest of women
A young lawyer endures a moral struggle between passion and social conscience in Old New York. Edith Wharton's elegant portrait of desire and betrayal earned her the first Pulitzer Prize for lite
Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes' house - and into Ethan's lonely life.
In a novel that has evoked comparison to Oedipus and Hamlet, Wharton tells the story of a mother and daughter whose infatuation with the same man sends shock waves through New York society.
