The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long.
Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity.
Autor | Edith Wharton |
Wydawnictwo | Wordsworth |
Rok wydania | 2002 |
Oprawa | miękka |
Liczba stron | 299 |
Format | 12.5x19.5cm |
Numer ISBN | 9781840224191 |
Kod paskowy (EAN) | 9781840224191 |
Waga | 210 g |
Data premiery | 2016.04.16 |
Data pojawienia się | 2016.04.16 |
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Akcja powieści amerykańskiej pisarki Edith Wharton toczy się w Nowym Jorku na przełomie XIX i XX wieku. Główna bohaterka, Lily Bart od dzieciństwa przywykła do życia ponad stan. Po śmierci rodziców trafia na utrzymanie ciotki. Piękna i błyskotliwa, spędza czas wśród wyższych sfer Nowego Jorku i jednocześnie poszukuje odpowiedniego kandydata na męża. Niewielkie środki finansowe przestają jej jednak wystarczać na beztroską zabawę. Żeby utrzymać dotychczasowy poziom życia, Lily musi wybierać miedzy własną dumą a luksusem. Czy samotnej pannie Bart uda się zachować godność i odnaleźć prawdziwe uczucie w tym świecie pozorów, intryg, konwenansów i fałszywych przyjaciół?
When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn't reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she's told dislikes her changes, yet never seems able to be found.
A novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts. A sensation on first publication, its honest depiction of a young woman attempting to live on her own terms remains as vital today as it was in 1917.
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. The Age of Innocence, a Level 4 Read...
Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingénue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her sorrowful eyes, her tragic worldliness and her air of unapproachability attract the sensitive Newland and, almost against their will, a passionate bond develops between them. But Archer's life has no place for passion and, with society on the side of May and all she stands for, he finds himself drawn into a bitter conflict between love and duty.
Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Lily Bart is twenty-nine, beautiful and charming. She has expensive tastes, loves to gamble and socializes with the wealthy upper-class families of New York. But her meagre finances are dwindling and her place in society is slipping away from her. Her only hope of security is to find a suitable husband. However, Lily has an independence of spirit that stands in the way of her committing to the suitors available to her. As her options diminish, her friends become her enemies and her situation grows increasing perilous.
Europa, lata dwudzieste XX wieku Głównymi bohaterami jest kochające się małżeństwo: oboje dobrze urodzeni, ale biedni. Zakochanie się przeszkodziło im w planach – Susy i Nick chcieli zdobyć majątek zawierając korzystny związek, a tu – masz ci los! – przeszkodziła im miłość. Ponieważ jednak są nowocześni i sprytni – zawarli umowę: przez rok mogą szczęśliwie żyć na koszt znajomych (wszyscy chcą pomagać nowożeńcom!), a jeśli któreś z nich będzie miało możliwość zawarcia bardziej intratnego związku, to się rozwiodą. Oczywiście życie okazuje się nie takie proste i nasi bohaterowie muszą się zmierzyć z własnymi uczuciami i tym, że to, co kiedyś wydawało im się ważne i cenne, wcale nie musi ich zaspokoić.
Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an el...
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With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ?to draw life as it really was? in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome, his grim wife, Zeena, and Mattie Silver, her charming cousin, Wharton explores psychological dead-lock:frustration, longing, resentment, passion. First published in 1911, the novella stunned its public with its consummate handling of the unfolding drama, and has remained for many readers the most compelling and subtle of all Wharton?s fiction.
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