Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Susan Kingsley. 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 [...]

Edith Wharton – Age of Innocence

Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He [...]

Edith Wharton – Nekaltybės amžius

Knyga apie meilę, XIX amžiaus pabaiga. Niujorkas. Mitais apipintas laikas – „nekaltybės amžius“. Kupinas draudimų ir veidmainystės, bet skatinęs atidžiai įsiklausyti į save ir į kitą žmogų. Niulandas Arčeris, turtingos ir garbingos Niujorko šeimos atžala, rengiasi vesti visais atžvilgiais jam tinkamą nuotaką, gražuolę [...]