The Old Maid

Classic Edith Wharton, ‘The Old Maid’ was first published as a serial in ‘The Red Book Magazine.’ Through this heart-rending and haunting tale, Wharton takes aim at the notions of conformity and delivers a scathing judgement on the conventions of life in the early 20th Century. In the story, the unmarried and prudish Charlotte Lovell gives up her baby daughter, Tina, to her married cousin, Delia. As time goes by and Tina grows, the two women must decide which of them is the ‘real’ mother and whether Tina should ever know the truth of her past. A searing and melancholic story from the pen of one of America’s greatest novelists.

Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.

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The Old Maid

Classic Edith Wharton, ‘The Old Maid’ was first published as a serial in ‘The Red Book Magazine.’ Through this heart-rending and haunting tale, Wharton takes aim at the notions of conformity and delivers a scathing judgement on the conventions of life in the early 20th Century. In the story, the unmarried and prudish Charlotte Lovell gives up her baby daughter, Tina, to her married cousin, Delia. As time goes by and Tina grows, the two women must decide which of them is the ‘real’ mother and whether Tina should ever know the truth of her past. A searing and melancholic story from the pen of one of America’s greatest novelists.

Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American designer and novelist. Born in an era when the highest ambition a woman could aspire to was a good marriage, Wharton went on to become one of America’s most celebrated authors. During her career, she wrote over 40 books, using her wealthy upbringing to bring authenticity and detail to stories about the upper classes. She moved to France in 1923, where she continued to write until her death.

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    Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Guy De Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Edith Wharton, Maria Edgeworth, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Wollstonecraft, Louis Hémon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Grace Livingston Hill, Gilbert Parker, Fanny Fern, Georg Ebers, Fanny Burney, Mary Hays, Robert Williams Buchanan, Mary Angela Dickens, Madame La Fayette, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. K. Broster, Sabine Baring-Gould, Eliza Haywood, Leo Tolstoy, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Lady Sydney Morgan, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Olifant, María Ruiz de Burton, Lady Charlotte Bury, Philip Meadows Taylor

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  2. Edith Wharton's Summer - Unabridged :

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  3. The Complete Works of Edith Wharton : Elegance, Intrigue, and the Gilded Age

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  4. The Age of Innocence

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  7. Old New York

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  8. Glädjens hus

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  9. The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection: Novels and Stories from Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and more. Illustrated : The Turn of the Screw; Morella; Ligeia; The Mask of the Red Death; The Oval Portrait; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Fullness of Life; The Signalman and more

    Henry James, M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens

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  10. The Custom of the Country

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  11. Summer

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