Автор: Edith Wharton

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things…’One harsh winter in 1900s New England, Ethan Frome toils at his farm while struggling to maintain a bearable existence with his forbidding wife, Zeena. When Ethan takes Zeena’s cousin, Mattie, home from a dance he is entranced: Mattie brings with her the possibility for happiness, and with that she quickly becomes a symbol of hope for Ethan.First published…

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.’Lily Bart, an attractive young woman living in New York City, relies on beauty and charm to ensure economic survival. Determined to marry into wealth to support her expensive lifestyle, Lily denies her feelings for Lawrence Stern due to his modest income. She turns instead towards young millionaire, Percy Grace. During her pursuit of money…

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.’I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won’t exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts himself by the rules and standards of the polite, upper class New York society that he resides in. Happily engaged to the pretty and conventional May Welland, his attachment…

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 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…

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 becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow – especially a young man who is soon to be…

Susan Branch ja Nick Lansing on kõrgseltskonna satelliidid, kelle elujärg sõltub jõukate sõprade heatahtlikkusest. Hetketuju ajel otsustavad nad abielluda ning nautida aasta sõltumatut elu, mida võimaldavad pulmadeks saadud tšekid ja mesinädalate veetmiseks pakutud häärberid. Abieluleppe juurde käib aga klausel, et teine antakse vabaks kohe, kui tekib väljavaade abielludes parem partii teha. Noorpaari õnn hakkab peale esimest Como järve ääres veedetud kuud murenema, kui nad on sunnitud kolima Veneetsiasse, kus egotsentriline ja silmakirjalik seltskond paneb proovile nende…

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 Mėją Veland. Planus sujaukia iš Europos sugrįžusi Mėjos pusseserė grafienė Elena Olenska. Netikėtai įsiplieskia neįmanoma aistra, Niulandą drasko prieštaringi jausmai: meilė šiai aukštuomenės normų nepaisančiai moteriai ir aplinkos…