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Home to Harlem
CLAUDE McKAY was born in Jamaica, and moved to the U.S. in 1912 to study at the Tuskgee Institute. In 1928, he published his most famous novel, Home to Harlem, which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, and in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
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The House of Mirth (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket Glamorous, witty, and born to dazzle, Lily Bart knows she was meant for a life of luxury-but in New York's high society, beauty alone isn't enough. Torn between marrying for wealth and holding out for love, she plays a dangerous game where every misstep has consequences. Scandal and gossip swirl around her, allies become rivals, and the glittering world she covets begins to slip through her fingers. As she struggles to secure her place among the elite, Lily is forced to reckon with the cost of ambition in a society that can turn cruel in an instant. A searing critique of Gilded Age society, The House of Mirth exposes the ruthless constraints placed on women in the early 20th century. Through Lily Bart's downfall, Edith Wharton unflinchingly reveals how wealth, marriage, and reputation dictated a woman's fate in elite circles. The novel was groundbreaking in its portrayal of social hypocrisy and the impossible choices facing women who sought both love and independence. More than a century later, its themes of ambition, class, and gender remain strikingly relevant, cementing Wharton's place as a literary trailblazer.
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Ethan Frome (Collector's Edition) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
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Old New York
Old New York is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. The New York of these stories is the same as the New York of The Age of Innocence, from which several fictional characters have spilled over into these stories. The observation of the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society is directly reminiscent of The Age of Innocence, but these novellas are shaped more as character studies. Table of Contents: - False Dawn (The Forties) - The Old Maid (The Fifties) - The Spark (The Sixties) - New Year's Day (The Seventies)
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Mr Jones
When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But she hasn't reckoned on the obstinate Mr Jones, the caretaker she's told dislikes her changes, yet never seems able to be found.
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We Run the Tides
Written in the key of Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, We Run the Tides unravels the tense friendships of a tight-knit group of self-obsessed teenage girls, who, through a small misunderstanding, are forced to confront the secrets they keep and the lies they tell...
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The House of Mirth
Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)Published in 1905 to immediate critical and commercial success, Edith Wharton’s enduringly popular novel of manners is a brilliant evocation of the economic and social changes wrought by the Gilded Age, as well as a universal satire on the constraints and follies of upper-crust conventions.
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Old New York
The events in Old New York are set in the same New York as Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, making this a prequel. In Old New York Wharton once again explores the manners and morals of 19th century New York upper-class society. Unsurprisingly Old New York is reminiscent of The Age of Innocence. Once again Wharton is at her very best weaving stories full of truth and power.Some characters from The Age of Innocence that you’ll meet again are Mrs. (Catherine) Manson Mingott, Sillerton Jackson, Mrs. Lemuel Struthers, Henry Van der Luyden.Return to a Time of Innocence!
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Winifred Holtby: A BBC Radio Collection
South Riding, Anderby Wold, The Crowded Street and moreFull-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtby’s best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the authorWinifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf, but she is best known for her posthumously published masterpiece South Riding, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She died in 1935, aged just 37.Born into a Yorkshire farming family, Holtby set much of her fiction in the landscape of her youth, including the three novels in this collection.Adapted as a 15-part radio drama, South Riding follows the lives and loves of fiery young headmistress Sarah Burton, landowner and school governor Robert Carne, and alderwoman Mrs Beddowes. Sarah Lancashire, Philip Glenister and Carole Boyd star in this rich, memorable evocation of a community in flux.Anderby Wold tells the tale of a farmer’s wife, a radical young writer and a village rocked by social change. Dramatised from Holtby’s 1923 debut novel, it stars Joanna Mackie, Derek Smith and Joseph Peters.The Crowded Street, set in the years leading up to World War I, centres around a woman's journey from introspective teenager to self-fulfilled adult. Claire Goose stars as heroine Muriel Hammond in this poignant coming-of-age drama.Wry, witty and irreverent, Holtby’s short stories reflect the diversity of her writing. 'The Celebrity Who Failed', read by Alice Arnold, features a girl who learns to walk on water – but is unprepared for the public attention that follows. 'Why Herbert Killed His Mother' is the story of a beautiful baby who turns out to be very different as an adult. A searing condemnation of ‘mother love’, it is read by Anna Massey. And in 'The Voice of God', read by Hugh Dickson, a radio-like machine enables people to listen in on the conversations of historical figures – but what will happen once the newspapers get to hear of it?Finally, Holtby’s life, legacy and significance are explored in a Woman’s Hour biographical segment and in a revealing radio portrait, The Divided State, written by Valerie Windsor and featuring Alison Fiske as Winifred Holtby.Text copyright © Winifred Holtby 1923 (Anderby Wold), 1924 (The Crowded Street), 1934 (‘The Celebrity Who Failed’, ‘Why Herbert Killed His Mother’, ‘The Voice of God’), 1936 (South Riding)ContentsSouth RidingAnderby WoldThe Crowded Street‘The Celebrity Who Failed’‘Why Herbert Killed His Mother’‘The Voice of God’Woman’s Hour extractThe Divided State© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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Ethan Frome / Sous la neige
English-French Side-by-Side€ 21,95