...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...venties, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropo... ...which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned ... ...ion of some day returning their visit (without the Duchess, who feared the Atlantic). Mr. and Mrs. van der Luyden divided their time between Trevenna,... ... deal 44 The Age of Innocence more reasonant in a young woman with such a history. The dinner was a somewhat formidable business. Dining with the van... ...oth Beaufort and himself from her mind, and went on: “I’ve never been in a city where there seems to be such a feeling against living in des quartiers... ...70 The Age of Innocence “W ell—what’s the use? She’ s here—he’s there; the Atlantic’s between them. She’ll never get back a dollar more of her money t... ...ork wedding a rite 125 Edith Wharton that seemed to belong to the dawn of history. Everything was equally easy—or equally painful, as one chose to pu...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of... ...t, he had always made use of the “argument from design.” “The resources of New Y ork are rather meagre,” he said; 5 Edith Wharton “but I’ll find a ha... ...d to all the reviews dealing with book-collecting in general, and American history in particular, and as allusions to his library abounded in the page... ...ening in the street. Mrs. Peniston was the owner of a country-place in New Jersey, but she had never lived there since her husband’s death—a remote ev... ...leapt into her brain before she was conscious of reading them, told a long history—a history over which, for the last four years, the friends of the w... ... even have faced a marriage with Rosedale; but the accident of placing the Atlantic between herself and her obligations made them dwindle out of sight... ...smoothed away. The sudden escape from a stifling hotel in a dusty deserted city to the space and luxury of 217 Edith Wharton a great country-house fa...

...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing i...