Title: Edith Lawson. A novel.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bates, R.; 1886. 3 vol.; 8 . 12636.g.13.
Title: Edith Vavasour. A novel.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Branscombe, Graham; 1876. 3 vol.; 8 . 12636.g.1.
""Ethan Frome: A Dramatization Of Edith Wharton's Novel"" by Owen Davis is a play adaptation of the classic novel ""Ethan Frome"" by Edith Wharton. The story follows the tragic life of Ethan Frome, a poor farmer in rural New England who is unhappily married to his sickly and bitter wife, Zeena. When Zeena's cousin, the beautiful and vivacious Mattie Silver, comes to live with them and helps out around the farm, Ethan and Mattie fall in love. However, their forbidden relationship leads to a devastating accident that changes their lives forever. The play explores themes of love, duty, sacrifice, and the consequences of one's actions. Davis's adaptation stays true to Wharton's original story while bringing it to life on the stage.Sketches By Jo Mielziner.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
On a sunny Norfolk beach, the Rev. Frederick Cavell and his wife row over her worries about Edith their independent and self-willed daughter. Little will they know that her mother's concerns would not only come true but also will impact, upon the nation, during the dark days of World War1. After training as a nurse and rising within the profession, Edith is approached by British Intelligence, to become an agent, when she returns to war torn Belgium, intending to open a Red Cross Hospital in Brussels. Will she accept and if so are the Government's motives honourable or more sinister? Should she get into trouble for helping her countrymen during the impending German Occupation, will it choose to intervene to avoid her becoming a tragic heroine or will her death better suit its purpose?
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film, Ethan Frome, in 1993. Ethan Frome is set in the fictional New England town of Starkfield, where a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events. His initial impressions are based on his observations of Frome going about his mundane tasks in Starkfield, and something about him catches the eye and curiosity of the visitor, but no one in the town seems interested in revealing many details about the man or his history - or perhaps they are not able to. The narrator ultimately finds himself in the position of staying overnight at Frome's house in order to escape a winter storm, and from there he observes Frome and his private circumstances, which he shares and which triggers other people in town to be more forthcoming with their own knowledge and impressions. 2] The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue, which is neither named as such nor numbered, opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. This is Ethan Frome, who is a local fixture of the community, having been a lifelong resident. Frome is described as "the most striking figure in Starkfield", "the ruin of a man" with a "careless powerful look...in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain". Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a "smash-up" twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming, and the narrator fails to learn much more from Frome's fellow townspeople other than that Ethan's attempt at higher education decades before was thwarted by the sudden illness of his father following an injury, forcing his return to the farm to assist his parents, never to leave again. Because people seem not to wish to speak other than in vague and general terms about Frome's past, the narrator's curiosity grows, but he learns little more.... Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. 1] Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.
N e avant-guerre dans des circonstances particuli res, notre h ro ne nous livre un t moignage mouvant de son itin raire extraordinaire travers le si cle.Avec ses yeux d'enfant, nous d couvrons la soci t matriarcale des villages de p cheurs bretons et l'exil forc de ses parents.Elle nous narre avec enthousiasme sa travers e de la guerre o les bombardements sont pour elle de joyeux feux d'artifice, l'exode un western revisit la sauce bretonne.La jeune fille nous transmet sa passion pour l'Afrique du Nord qu'elle d couvre en 1947. Le Maroc devient son pays de coeur, Agadir est sa ville ch rie.Mariage, naissance, la vie semble paisible sous le doux climat marocain. Et pourtant un drame collectif va marquer jamais son destin. Le 29 f vrier 1960, 23 heure 40, la terre se met trembler...Le s isme de magnitude 5,9 dure 15 secondes. 15 000 personnes viennent de succomber. La vie ne sera jamais plus pareille dith entre en deuil Elle se r fugie Casablanca, d couvre la libert , puis embrasse une vie de bl dard dans le Souss marocain. Elle nous fait vivre le rapatriement des pieds-noirs vers la m tropole, Paris, la ville lumi re... Un vrai coup de foudre.Les aventures se succ deront jusqu' son retour sur les traces de son pass , dans son petit village du bord du golfe du Morbihan pour vivre paisiblement pr s de sa famille.Un parcours constell de grandes joies et de peines immenses, comme la m me Piaf, la bien pr nomm e. La vie ne fut pas toujours rose, mais elle ne regrette rien, ni le bien, ni le mal, tout lui est bien gal... Une ode la vie, un hymne l'amour... Une valse mille temps (J. Brel)
The accidental discovery of seven old letters in a bureau started the author on a thirty-year search, to discover what had happened to her great-great-aunt Ellen, who emigrated from Portsea to Australia in 1841.
The Reef is a 1912 novel by American writer Edith Wharton. It was published by D. Appleton & Company. It concerns a romance between a widow and her former lover. The novel takes place in Paris and rural France, but primarily features American characters. While writing the novel, Edith Wharton visited England, Sicily, and Germany, among other locations. In a letter to Bernard Berenson in November 1912, Wharton expressed regret regarding her novel, calling it a "poor miserable lifeless lump". She wrote, "Anyhow, remember it's not me, though I thought it was when I was writing it-& that next time I'm going to do something worthwhile
A Seattle Times Best of 2017 Book Los Angeles, 1938. Former aspiring actress Lillian Frost is adjusting to a new life of boldfaced names as social secretary to a movie-mad millionaire. Costume designer Edith Head is running Paramount Pictures' wardrobe department, but only until a suitable replacement comes along. The two friends again become partners thanks to an international scandal, a real-life incident in which the war clouds gathering over Europe cast a shadow on Hollywood. Lillian attended the Manhattan dinner party at which well-heeled guests insulted Adolf Hitler within earshot of a maid with Nazi sympathies. Now, secrets the maid vengefully spilled have all New York society running for cover - and two Paramount stars, Jack Benny and George Burns, facing smuggling charges. Edith also seeks Lillian's help on a related matter. The migr pianist in Marlene Dietrich's budding nightclub act has vanished. Lillian reluctantly agrees to look for him. When Lillian finds him dead, Dietrich blames agents of the Reich. As Lillian and Edith unravel intrigue extending from Paramount's Bronson Gate to FDR's Oval Office, only one thing is certain: they'll do it in style. The second installment of the Edith Head and Lillian Frost mytsery series, Renee Patrick's Dangerous to Know beguilingly blends forgotten fact and fanciful fiction, while keeping Hollywood glamour front and center
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