The Collected Works of Edith Wharton E-Book

Edith Wharton

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 8643

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 9770 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Ethan Frome • The Age of Innocence • The House of Mirth • Summer • Short Stories for English Courses • The Custom of the Country • The Decoration of Houses and Ogden Codman • Xingu • Tales of Men and Ghosts • A Parody Outline of HistoryDonald Ogden Stewart • Poems of American Patriotism • The Reef • In Morocco • The Descent of Man and Other Stories • The Touchstone • Age of Innocence • The Early Short Fiction of • The Greater Inclination • Kerfol • The Glimpses of the Moon • Bunner Sisters • The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories • Autres Temps. • The Valley of Decision • The Fruit of the Tree • Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort • Crucial Instances • Madame de Treymes • The Choice • Madame de Treymes • Sanctuary • Coming Home • In Morocco • The Triumph Of Night • The Marne • The Age of Innocence • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses • The House of Mirth • The Long Run • Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses • etc.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

The Age of Innocence

Book I

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

Book II

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIV.

THE CHOICE

Contents

I

II

COMING HOME

Contents

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

BUNNER SISTERS

Scribner's Magazine 60 (Oct. 1916): 439-58; 60 (Nov. 1916): 575-96.

PART I

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

PART II

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

SUMMER

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

MADAME DE TREYMES

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

THE JOY OF LIVING

(ES LEBE DAS LEBEN)

A PLAY IN FIVE ACTS

Translator's Note

CHARACTERS

ACT I

THE JOY OF LIVING

ACT I

Curtain.

ACT II

ACT II

Curtain.

ACT III

ACT III

Curtain.

ACT IV

ACT IV

Curtain.

ACT V

ACT V

Curtain.

IN MOROCCO

PREFACE

I

II

NOTE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

I

RABAT AND SALÉ

I

LEAVING TANGIER

II

THE TRAIL TO EL-KSAR

III

EL-KSAR TO RABAT

IV

THE KASBAH OF THE OUDAYAS

V

ROBINSON CRUSOE'S "SALLEE"

VI

CHELLA AND THE GREAT MOSQUE

FOOTNOTES:

II

VOLUBILIS, MOULAY IDRISS AND MEKNEZ

I

VOLUBILIS

II

MOULAY IDRISS

III

MEKNEZ

FOOTNOTES:

III

FEZ

I

THE FIRST VISION

II

FEZ ELDJID

III

FEZ ELBALI

IV

EL ANDALOUS AND THE POTTERS' FIELD

V

MEDERSAS, BAZAARS AND AN OASIS

VI

THE LAST GLIMPSE

FOOTNOTES:

IV

MARRAKECH

I

THE WAY THERE

II

THE BAHIA

III

THE BAZAARS

IV

THE AGDAL

V

ON THE ROOFS

VI

THE SAADIAN TOMBS

FOOTNOTES:

V

HAREMS AND CEREMONIES

I

THE CROWD IN THE STREET

II

AÏD-EL-KEBIR

III

THE IMPERIAL MIRADOR

IV

IN OLD RABAT

V

IN FEZ

VI

IN MARRAKECH

FOOTNOTES:

VI

GENERAL LYAUTEY'S WORK IN MOROCCO

I

II

III

THE WORK OF THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE, 1912-1918

PORTS

COMMERCE

COMPARATIVE TABLES

ROADS BUILT

RAILWAYS BUILT

LAND CULTIVATED

JUSTICE

EDUCATION

MEDICAL AID

FOOTNOTES:

VII

A SKETCH OF MOROCCAN HISTORY

I

THE BERBERS

II

PHENICIANS, ROMANS AND VANDALS

III

THE ARAB CONQUEST

IV

ALMORAVIDS AND ALMOHADS

V

THE MERINIDS

VI

THE SAADIANS

VII

THE HASSANIANS

FOOTNOTES:

VIII

NOTE ON MOROCCAN ARCHITECTURE

I

II

III

IV

FOOTNOTES:

IX

BOOKS CONSULTED

THE DESCENT OF MAN AND OTHER STORIES

BY EDITH WHARTON

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Descent of Man The Other Two Expiation The Lady's Maid's Bell The Mission of Jane The Reckoning The Letter The Dilettante The Quicksand A Venetian Night's Entertainment

THE DESCENT OF MAN

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

THE OTHER TWO

I

II

III

IV

V

EXPIATION

I.

II

III

IV

V

THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL

I

II

III

IV

THE MISSION OF JANE

I

II

III

IV

V