Wharton: 570 books

HUBERT GRANICE, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: “Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a “very small...

Among New York City's upper class of the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there was a small cluster of aristocratic families that ruled New York's social life. To those at the apex of the social world one's occupation or abilities were secondary to heredity...

Music is the surprising catalyst that brings love and new life to two women from very different generations. Millie is the director of Christmas House at Sunny Hills Retirement Community. She enjoys her busy life and her friendsuntil Jack shows up one night. For fifty years shes forced herself to...

EVER since the white race has been in power on the American continent it has regarded the Indian race—and by this I mean all the aboriginal people found here—as its inferiors in every regard. And little by little upon this hypothesis have grown up various sentiments and aphorisms which have so controlled...

To those good men and women, of all creeds and of no creed, whose lives have shown forth the glories of beautiful, helpful, unselfish, sympathetic humanity: To those whose love and life are larger than all creeds and who discern the manifestation of God in all men: To those who are urging forward the...

A captivating portrait of a clash of cultures and the role of women in society, this is the story of two young innocents abroad—Fanny Frisbee, a young woman enduring an unhappy marriage, and John Durham, her childhood friend who arrives in Paris hoping to convince Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him.

A one-act play based in the Northwest of England. Through the eyes of a child, suffering loss, neglect and abuse.

Providing a bridge between research in healthcare and spirituality and practitioner perspectives, these essays on chaplaincy in healthcare continue dialogue around constructing, negotiating and researching spiritual care and discuss the critical issues in chaplaincy work, including assisted suicide...

Archer, già fidanzato con May, s’innamora profondamente di Ellen, moglie separata di un corrotto conte polacco. Ellen è una donna che ha deciso di vivere libera e non viene accettata in una società estremamente formale come quella dell’alta società di New York agli inizi del ‘900. È la...

La giovane Charity trascorre una vita noiosa a North Dormer, nel New England. Arrivata in città dalla “Montagna”, dove viveva in misere condizioni in una comunità di reietti, era stata adottata da bambina dall’avvocato Royall, ora rimasto vedovo. Un giorno nella biblioteca in cui lavora appare...