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La edad de la inocencia es una profunda exploración de las normas sociales, los dilemas morales y los conflictos entre el deseo individual y las expectativas colectivas en la alta sociedad neoyorquina de finales del siglo XIX. Edith Wharton retrata un mundo regido por la tradición y la apariencia, donde las pasiones y aspiraciones personales quedan supeditadas a las rígidas estructuras sociales. A través de personajes como Newland Archer, May Welland y la enigmática Ellen Olenska, la novela examina temas como el matrimonio, la represión emocional y el choque entre la modernidad y las costumbres arraigadas. Desde su publicación, La edad de la inocencia ha sido aclamada por su aguda crítica social y su exquisita prosa, convirtiéndose en un referente de la literatura estadounidense. Su exploración de la hipocresía, el sacrificio y la imposibilidad de la realización personal en un mundo dominado por las apariencias sigue resonando en los lectores. Los personajes, con sus dilemas internos y sus historias entrelazadas, ofrecen una mirada atemporal a las tensiones entre el deber y el deseo. La relevancia perdurable de la novela radica en su capacidad para iluminar las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y los desafíos de la autodeterminación en un entorno social restrictivo. Al analizar la intersección entre los sueños individuales y las exigencias de la comunidad, La edad de la inocencia invita a reflexionar sobre las renuncias impuestas por la sociedad y el precio de la verdadera libertad.

My New York! is a rich anthology that celebrates the vibrant and multifaceted world of New York City through twenty timeless novels and stories. This collection brings together some of the most evocative works of literature, offering readers a journey through the city's cultural, social, and emotional landscapes. From the glittering Gilded Age to the struggles of modernity, these works capture the essence of New York as a place of ambition, transformation, and human drama. Featured classics like Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence explore themes of societal expectations, personal longing, and the complexities of relationships against the backdrop of New York's elite circles. This beautifully curated volume, complemented by illustrations that bring the stories to life, is a tribute to the enduring allure of New York. Whether you're a seasoned lover of literature or new to the classics, My New York! offers a captivating portrait of a city that continues to inspire and enchant. Contents: Novels • The House of Mirth • The Custom of the Country • The Age of Innocence Stories • The Dilettante • The Reckoning • Expiation • The Pot-Boiler • His Father's Son • Full Circle • Autres Temps... • The Long Run • After Holbein • Diagnosis • Pomegranate Seed • Roman Fever • Mrs. Manstey's View • That Good May Come • The Portrait • A Cup of Cold Water • A Journey • The Rembrandt • The Other Two • The Quicksand

A trancelike feminist fable of magic, alchemy, and the battle of the sexes by Britain's foremost surrealist painterCalcination. Putrefaction. Exaltation. Trapped on an enchanted island ruled by her uncle, a young woman must pass through the stages of alchemical transformation to escape. He wants to conquer death by magic - and she may pay the price for his ambition.Lushly visual, rife with symbols and cries from the unconscious, Colquhoun's first novel is a surreal feminist fable, and a supreme artistic vision.Includes'Hexentanz', a lost chapter from the original manuscript.

'Le Fanal bleu'est un roman de Colette qui nous plonge dans un univers où l'amour et les tourments du cœur se mêlent à la quête du bonheur. L'histoire suit une jeune femme, désireuse de fuir une vie monotone et de s'affranchir de l'influence d'un passé oppressant. Elle se retrouve dans un cadre idéal, au bord de la mer, où elle espère trouver la paix et la liberté. Là, elle rencontre un homme mystérieux, un artiste solitaire, dont elle tombe éperdument amoureuse.Cependant, cette relation, aussi passionnée qu'intense, se révèle être bien plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît. L'homme qu'elle admire s'avère aussi être une personne tourmentée, et leurs sentiments, bien que puissants, sont marqués par des malentendus, des frustrations et des dilemmes intérieurs. Le roman décrit avec une grande finesse les hésitations de la jeune femme, entre le désir d'être aimée et la crainte de la déception.À travers cette histoire, Colette explore les contrastes entre la beauté d'un amour idéaliste et les difficultés de la réalité. Le titre'Le Fanal bleu'symbolise cette lueur d'espoir qui guide les personnages à travers l'obscurité de leurs vies intérieures, mais qui demeure aussi une lumière fragile et incertaine.Avec son écriture délicate, Colette capture les moments de tension, de doute et d'émotion pure qui jalonnent la vie amoureuse.'Le Fanal bleu'est une œuvre introspective, où les sentiments sont décrits dans toute leur complexité et leur profondeur. Un roman émouvant pour ceux qui cherchent à comprendre les aléas de l'amour, les illusions et les désillusions qui en découlent. À PROPOS DE L'AUTRICE Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, née en 1873 en France, fut une icône littéraire intemporelle. Connue sous le nom de Colette, elle brilla par sa plume unique et sa rébellion subtile. Ses œuvres emblématiques, dont'Claudine à l'école'et'Gigi', captivèrent le public du début du 20e siècle. Colette n'était pas seulement une auteure, mais une femme audacieuse qui bouscula les conventions sociales. Son art saisissant et son regard perspicace sur la condition féminine lui ont valu une place permanente dans le cœur des lecteurs du monde entier.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about love and the constraints of privilege, and the basis for Martin Scorsese's outstanding, award-winning 1993 adaptation, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics Line. The Age of Innocence begins with Newland Archer—gentleman-lawyer and scion of one of New York's most privileged families—anticipating his marriage to the gentle, lovely, and equally privileged May Welland. But when Newland meets May's cousin, the beautiful and scandal-ridden Countess Ellen Olenska, he begins to doubt his choice of bride and his place within the shallow, gilded cage of society life. If the Countess Olenska can dare to leave her disastrous marriage, can defy the unspoken, iron-clad rules that have shaped her life—what freedoms are possible for him? And what does true innocence look like in a world strangled by hollow custom, trivial squabbles, and the appearance of goodness? The Age of Innocence is one of Edith Wharton's greatest novels and a true classic that continues to inspire and transfix readers today.

Novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and artist, D. H. Lawrence had an immense influence on twentieth century literature, in spite of his short and often persecuted life. His novels represent an extended reflection on the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation, establishing his name as one of the great imaginative novelists of his generation. This eBook presents Lawrence's collected (almost complete) works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 12) • Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lawrence's life and works• Concise introductions to the novels and other texts• The complete novels, with individual contents tables• 2 drafts of ‘Lady Chatterley's Lover': The First Lady Chatterley; John Thomas and Lady Jane• Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts• Excellent formatting of the texts• All the short stories, with many rare stories appearing in digital print for the first time• Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories• Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read• All the plays, with separate contents tables• complete travel writing books• the complete poetry, including rare books available in no other digital collection• Includes many rare non-fiction essays and collections• Also includes ‘A STUDY OF THOMAS HARDY'– explore Lawrence's critique of the famous author• The rare school textbook Lawrence wrote when struggling financially• Features a bonus biography by Lawrence's wife – first time in digital print'explore the great writer's literary life!• Lawrence's translations of Italian novels and short stories• UPDATED with the complete novels, novellas, travel books, paintings and short stories• Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The NovelsThe White Peacock (1911)The Trespasser (1912)Sons and Lovers (1913)The Rainbow (1915)Women in Love (1920)The Lost Girl (1920)Mr Noon (1921)Aaron's Rod (1922)Kangaroo (1923)The Boy in the Bush (1924)The Plumed Serpent (1926)Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)The First Lady ChatterleyJohn Thomas and Lady Jane The NovellasThe Ladybird (1923)The Fox (1923)The Captain's Doll (1923)St. Mawr (1925)The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930)The Escaped Cock (1930) The Short StoriesThe Complete Short StoriesList of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The PlaysThe Daughter-in-Law (1913)The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1914)Touch and Go (1920)David (1926)The Fight for Barbara (1933)A Collier's Friday Night (1934)The Married Man (1940)The Merry-Go-Round (1941) The Poetry CollectionsD.H. Lawrence's Poetry: A Brief IntroductionLove Poems and Others (1913)Amores (1916)Look! We Have Come Through! (1917)New Poems (1918)Bay: A Book of Poems (1919)Birds Beasts and Flowers (1923)Imagist Poetry (1923) The PoemsList of Poems in Chronological OrderList of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Travel Writingand more...

La colección de relatos definitiva de un maestro de las distancias cortas: un clásico moderno desternillante que consagra a T. C. Boyle como uno de los grandes narradores estadounidenses de nuestra era. Un chef atormentado por una crítica gastronómica, un asalto nocturno a una granja de pavos, una casa llena de ardillas lisiadas, un joven que sale de fiesta con Jane Austen. Esta colección reúne todo lo que, a lo largo de muchas décadas, ha pasado por la mente caótica, imprevisible y absolutamente brillante de T. C. Boyle. Estamos ante uno de los grandes maestros contemporáneos de la narrativa estadounidense, insuperable a la hora de tejer situaciones disparatadas y situar a sus personajes al límite de la cordura. Cada cuento nos ofrece un colorido desfile de criaturas maniáticas, excéntricas, frustradas, egoístas y, a fin de cuentas, tan humanas como cualquiera de nosotros. A través de una sátira fresca y desvergonzada, Boyle retrata con certera acidez una sociedad que solo se puede explicar a través del sinsentido. CRÍTICA «La obra más seria de Boyle: mordaz, mundana e irreverente.» —Publishers Weekly «700 llamativas e ingeniosas páginas de acrobacias estilísticas y morales.» —The New York Times «Imaginación feroz y deliciosa» —Los Angeles Times Book Review «Es un escritor satírico, por supuesto, con un ojo mortífero para las modas y las pretensiones, pero sobre todo un inventor cuyas extravagantes premisas narrativas rinden homenaje al espíritu de Groucho Marx y a los ejemplos de predecesores como el fantasioso británico John Collier y nuestros propios Donald Barthelme y Robert Coover» —Kirkus Reviews

Under the Volcano was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. Yvonne's mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half-brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.

El joven Newland Archer pertenece a una de las clases más altas de Nueva York. Siempre ha seguido las reglas de la estructura social, y ha juzgado a aquellos que no pertenecen, ni procuran amalgamarse en ella. Comprometido con May Welland, está decidido a llevar a cabo una vida respetable, honrosa y envidiable. Sin embargo, la llegada de la condesa Olenska, prima de May, será el empuje que necesita para reestructurar sus pensamientos sobre el amor, la vida, la sociedad, lo desagradable y lo deshonroso. Edith Warthon nos presenta, en esta extraordinaria obra, las limitaciones dentro de la estructura de un marco social bastante cuadrado, y en donde uno termina siendo preso de sus propios ideales.

'The Complete Strategy Collection, Illustrated'is a comprehensive anthology that brings together some of the most influential and timeless works on strategy and warfare. This captivating collection includes'The Art of War'by Sun Tzu,'The Prince'by Niccolò Machiavelli,'The Book of Five Rings'by Miyamoto Musashi,'On War'by Carl von Clausewitz, and'Arthashastra'by Chanakya. In'The Art of War,'Sun Tzu's ancient Chinese military treatise, readers are introduced to strategic principles and tactics that have shaped warfare strategies for centuries. With its emphasis on understanding the nature of conflict, analyzing opponents, and exploiting advantages, this classic work provides valuable insights into the art of achieving victory. Niccolò Machiavelli's'The Prince'is a political treatise that explores the acquisition, maintenance, and exercise of power. Machiavelli's pragmatic approach and his emphasis on strategic thinking and leadership have made this book a staple in the field of political strategy.'The Book of Five Rings'by Miyamoto Musashi offers a unique perspective on strategy through the lens of martial arts. Musashi, a legendary swordsman, shares his insights into combat, tactics, and personal discipline, emphasizing the interconnectedness of strategy and the individual's mindset. Carl von Clausewitz's'On War'is a comprehensive analysis of warfare, covering topics such as military strategy, tactics, and the nature of war itself. This influential work explores the complex dynamics of conflicts, including the political, social, and psychological aspects that shape strategic decision-making.'Arthashastra'by Chanakya is an ancient Indian text that explores the principles of statecraft and governance. It provides a detailed account of strategic thinking, diplomacy, and the management of a kingdom, offering practical advice on achieving and maintaining power. Contents: The Art of War The Prince The Book of Five Rings On War Arthashastra

Henri Barbusse was a French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einstein. Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. It was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1916. Contents: Under Fire The Inferno Meissonier Light

All'aeroporto di un'isola spagnola à la mode atterra un insolito viaggiatore. Chi sia veramente e da dove venga resta un mistero, finché apprendiamo che una donna, denominata Madame, gli ha affidato un incarico speciale: eliminare i partecipanti a un convegno internazionale – che sta per tenersi in un lussuoso albergo dell'isola – durante il quale scrittori e editori decideranno le sorti della letteratura e il definitivo genocidio della poesia sul pianeta Terra. Ma chi è veramente Donatien (questo il nome scelto dal protagonista)? Avrà il coraggio di compiere la sua missione di angelo sterminatore? E soprattutto, chi sono gli enigmatici personaggi che incontra, al cospetto dei quali prova una confusa sensazione di déjà vu? Le risposte a questi interrogativi sono nell'ultima pagina, come si conviene a un perfetto mystery. Se è possibile ai nostri giorni inventare una favola catturante tanto magica quanto eticamente impegnata, Silvio Raffo ci riesce, col suo ironico garbo e la sua prosa impeccabile, coadiuvati dalla rara capacità di emozionare e commuovere, prerogative specifiche degli “ultimi poeti”.

Ward Moore's classic novel'Greener Than You Think'posits a world with Bermuda grass running out of control -- choking out every other plant and destroying the food supply of animals and humanity alike. Greener Than You Think is a satire rather than an adventure story. One plant (a Bermuda grass treated with a special growth chemical) slowly spreads across California and beyond, swallowing cities and making vast tracks of land uninhabitable. (Goodreads)

Excerpt:'Some time in June of the year 1800 (as privately chronicled) there came a famous evening at Whitelaw's Club in St. James's Street, off Piccadilly, London. There and then—according to the unattested evidence of an eyewitness—Mr. Ladislaw lost his head, Lord Dunlone his mistress, Sir Robert Linne his fortune, and Major Dalrymple his life. Thus it appears these four were all losers, and each of a material property, save the first, who, alone of the quartette, commuted his self-possession for a very real equivalent in hard cash. “Whitelaw's” in those days ran, of a host of gambling clubs, the deepest. It was there all heavy potations and long stakes (at which many a self-martyr burned); but the first of these were put down and the second up with an accepted solemnity of decorum that was traditional to the place and the sign of its moral endowment. Fox, in his heavier moments, had been known to hazard in its glooms occasionally, and to lose, of course; and—equally of course—to find immediate balm for his scorched fingers in the inevitable “Herodotus.” Selwyn, also, and Topham Beauclerc, and many another Georgium sidus, had played and hiccupped within its pregnant walls; but always with gravity and a weight of personal responsibility towards the foundation. “Brookes's” might have held in its time more showy revelry; “Almack's” have gambled in broad-brimmed straw hats, bedecked with flowers, and masks to hide the play of emotions. “Whitelaw's” would have none of these. It had ever stood coldly aloof from flash and notoriety, accepting Todd's definition of a club as “An association of persons subjected to particular rules,” rather than that of Johnson (the rendering has a warm personal flavour), who calls it “An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.” From first to last it remained ponderous in self-importance and rigid in exacting the observance of its unwritten codes of conduct. If its gaming operations were large, it desired the company of no feather-brain “plungers”; but rather of players of substance, to whom cards were a market, not a raffle. Therefore, when on this particular night no fewer than four of its members—like those in the fable—suddenly revolted against the central system, and, for a space of minutes, made havoc of its respectable traditions, it is no wonder that “Whitelaw's” rose at the outrage like one man, and, in the upshot, pronounced sentence of club ostracism upon the delinquents. This, as it affected three, is matter of private history. The fourth escaped the distinction there and then through the interposition of “the man with the scythe.”'

Western novelette by W C Tuttle, published in Adventure magazine. Excerpt:'“Scientific prospectin'has its merits,” announced Ike Harper, as he climbed out of the gopher-hole and sat down beside me on a boulder and filled his pipe, “but fool luck has uncovered more bonanzas than science. “Now, there was ol'Jerry Sullivan's burro went skatin'down th'hill off th'trail one day and slid th'coverin'off th'Silver Cross, which made uh millionaire outa Jerry. Hen Berry accidentally fired his six-shooter into th'ground oncet and uncovered one of th'richest gold veins in th'State. Yuh can talk science till yer tongue hangs out, but if yuh ain't lucky yuh never hit it rich. Do yuh happen to know uh elongated person named Magpie Simpkins?” I replied that I had never had that pleasure. “Pleasure!” he snorted. “No, I reckon nobody ever did. Let me tell yuh why. “Magpie was uh scientific prospector. He could take uh piece uh rock and tell yuh jist what it contained and why it contained said constituents. Mineralogy was an open book to that jasper, and because of it he never made uh strike. “But he didn't merely go in fer prospectin'. That person was loco on anything except work. I reckon he had tried nearly everything. First he went in fer hypnotism. Not havin'uh likely subject, he tried it on uh wildcat. I reckon he forgot to tell th'cat what it meant. He got loose from th'cat and th'hypnotism thing at th'same time.''

The tale of Francis Herries, the'rogue'of the title. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale valley (his home for 40 years) and his unrequited love for gypsy Mirabell Starr are the two forces which drive him. (goodreads)

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was a late Victorian novelist, antiquarian and eclectic scholar. He is remembered particularly as a writer of famous hymns, notably, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers'. He was a prolific author of diverse subjects, producing over 200 books by the time of his death at the age of ninety. Among his most enduring works are his seminal ghost stories, revealing the author's interest in occult studies. This comprehensive eBook presents Baring-Gould's collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts digitised for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) • Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Baring-Gould's life and works• Concise introductions to the novels and major texts• 26 novels, with individual contents tables• Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing• Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts• Includes the original illustrations accompanying the works• Excellent formatting of the texts• Wide selection of Baring-Gould's non-fiction and songs • Features a bonus biography – discover Baring-Gould's intriguing life• Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The NovelsThrough Flood and Flame (1868)Mehalah (1880)John Herring (1883)Court Royal (1886)Red Spider (1887)Eve (1888)The Pennycomequicks (1889)Grettir the Outlaw (1889)Arminell (1890)Urith (1891)In the Roar of the Sea (1892)Through all the Changing Scenes of Life (1892)Cheap Jack Zita (1893)Kitty Alone (1894)The Icelander's Sword (1894)Noémi (1895)The Broom Squire (1890)Perpetua (1897)Guavas the Tinner (1897)Bladys of the Stewponey (1897)Domitia (1898)Pabo the Priest (1899)Winefred (1900)The Frobishers (1901)Miss Quillet (1902)In Dewisland (1904) The Shorter FictionJacquetta and Other Stories (1890)In a Quiet Village (1900)A Book of Ghosts (1904) The SongsSongs of the West (1890)Selected Hymns The Non-FictionThe Book of Were Wolves (1865)Post-Mediaeval Preachers (1865)Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (1866)The Lives of the Saints (Volumes I-III) (1872)Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events (1874)The Vicar of Morwenstow (1876)Historic Oddities and Strange Events (1889)Old Country Life (1890)In Troubadour Land (1891)Strange Survivals (1892)An Old English Home and its Dependencies (1898)A Book of Dartmoor (1900)Brittany (1902)A Book of North Wales (1903)A Book of the Riviera (1905)A Book of the Cevennes (1907)A Book of the Pyrenees (1907)Devonshire Characters and Strange Events (1908)Cornish Characters and Strange Events (1909)A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs (1909)Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe (1911)A Book of Folk Lore (1913) The BiographyThe Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould's Memoirs (1923) by Stewart M. Ellis Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

The disappearance of a majestic Thoroughbred unites a community in 1930s India in “one of the greatest horse books ever written.... Moving, and highly original” (Lauren St. John, author of The White Giraffe). In Calcutta, India, John Quillan cares for racehorses belonging to wealthy owners, and Mother Morag, who lives just down the road and leads a group of nuns working with Calcutta's poor, loves to watch these beautiful animals in action. Now, a new Thoroughbred, Dark Invader, has been shipped from England, rejected after a losing season, in which he didn't live up to his owner's expectations. A beautiful creature with rippling muscles and satin skin, Dark Invader is gently handled with love in his new home, and before long, he is poised for victory in the Viceroy Cup, the country's most famous race. But just days before the event, he disappears—and a desperate effort to find him begins. From Rumer Godden—the award-winning author of such classics as The Greengage Summer and Black Narcissus, as well as a number of beloved children's books—The Dark Horse is a moving and suspenseful story set in a fascinating historical era.

Michael O'Brien was born in Cork, Ireland on 25th October 1826. He finished his education at the University of Dublin and some accounts have him serving for a time in the British army at some in this period. Whilst at college he had shown some talent for writing poetry and two of his poems were later published in ‘The Ballads of Ireland'(1856).Departing for London with an £8,000 inheritance that was all spent during his stay of 4 years, he spent some time editing a periodical to aid the World's Fair of 1851.A year later he was bound for the United States with a new name, Fitz James, and an ambition to obtain a career in literature.His earliest works in the US were for The Lantern, before publishing works in the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American Whig Review. However, his most important early outlet was Harper's Magazine, and he first published with them in February 1853, with ‘The Two Skulls', and would over his short life contribute more than sixty articles of poetry and prose. As an established writer he now proceeded to publish magazines and periodicals of the calibre of the New York Saturday Press, Putnam's Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Atlantic Monthly to whom he sent ‘The Diamond Lens'(1858) and ‘The Wonder Smith'(1859). These are very early examples of science-fiction writing and along with several others establish him as one of the founders. He also wrote, either as originals or as adaptions several plays including ‘A Gentleman from Ireland'.In New York, he was associated with a brilliant set of contemporary Bohemians. At the weekly dinners hosted by the editor, actor and dramatist John Brougham, or at the nightly suppers at Pfaff's on Broadway, he was at the center of the entertainment.With the outbreak of Civil War in 1861, O'Brien joined the 7th regiment of the New York National Guard hoping to see action at the front. Fitz James O'Brien was badly wounded in a skirmish on 26th February 1862. From his wounds he caught tetanus and died at Cumberland, Maryland on 6th April 1862. He was 35.

Young and aristocratic Newland Archer is engaged to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. But when May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Europe, she turns their high-society New York world upside down. The young, successful Newland Archer and sweet socialite May Welland are the high society couple they were always meant to be. However, fresh on the heels of their engagement, they find their world upended by the scandalous arrival of May's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska. Recently separated from her husband and surrounded in rumors, Ellen returns to America and is reluctantly befriended by Archer and his bride to be. Initially disturbed, Archer grows more appreciative of Ellen's free-spirited ways as she opens his eyes to the world past Fifth Avenue. Torn between his loyalty to his marriage and disillusion with New York aristocracy, Archer begins to question all that he knows about love and passion while hopelessly pursuing the unattainable Countess. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Age of Innocence is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Alvina Houghton is bored by her little town, and feels trapped after her plans to elope with her lover falls through. Though she had previously dreamed of training as a nurse, Alvina is unsure what to do with her life. Alvina comes of age as her father, James, faces the failure of his business. She has a difficult relationship with her father. He is a man who never fully indulged in his passions, but has made eccentric financial decisions. In attempt to secure his daughter's upbringing and save his fortune, James buys a theater. There, he employs many traveling artists, as well as a handsome and sensual Italian man named Ciccio. After meeting the man, Alvina feels drawn to him, especially since he is well-traveled. The two share a slow-burn courtship, and after a lifetime of being raised around stifled passion, Alvina feels alive. Seduced by Ciccio and desperate for adventure, Alvina decides to run away with Ciccio, fleeing to Naples. As she leaves behind her life of security, comfort, and predictability, Alvina starts to explore desire, spontaneity, and her sexual freedom. Free to do as she wishes with Ciccio, Alvina explores Naples and her own sexual awakening, feeling independent and unfettered. However, even as she finds herself, Alvina also faces the reality of such fleeting freedom. D.H Lawrence's The Lost Girl is an emotionally compelling narrative featuring strong characters, wit, and prose that is both beautiful and bitter. With themes of feminism, class divisions, and family, The Lost Girl is a relatable story that leaves readers considering fate and the future. Through meticulous detail, readers are given valuable insight on the class distinctions and societal expectations of the 1920s in Europe. D.H Lawrence's The Lost Girl was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1920 to congratulate its gripping narrative and compelling characters. Now presented in an easy-to-read font and with a striking new cover design, this edition of The Lost Girl by D.H Lawrence restores the novel to modern standards while respecting its original mastery. With these accommodations, contemporary audiences are treated to a reading experience that is both accessible and luxurious. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A wounded veteran discovers the healing power of nature in this classic American novel by the author of A Girl of the Limberlost.Wounded in World War I, Jamie McFarlane is looking for a peaceful place to spend his final days. After escaping the grim confines of a California military hospital, he finds himself at the seaside home of the Bee Master. There, with the help of an impish eleven-year-old called Little Scout, Jamie tends to the hives and flowers while the Bee Master is away. As Jamie learns his new responsibilities, he discovers a source of hope and healing in the natural beauty that surrounds him. He also crosses paths with a mysterious young woman who faces a dilemma as dire as his own. This beloved tale of hardship, nature, and renewal is rich in wisdom and the joy of being alive.

The tale of Francis Herries, the'rogue'of the title. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a capricious father, the Borrowdale valley (his home for 40 years) and his unrequited love for gypsy Mirabell Starr are the two forces which drive him.

Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel was quickly recognized as a powerful tale of perseverance and comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully leads time and again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. “Each country whose frontiers are consumed by carnage is seen tearing from its heart ever more warriors of full blood and force. One's eyes follow the flow of these living tributaries to the River of Death. To north and south and west afar there are battles on every side. Turn where you will, there is war in every corner of that vastness.” Even from a distance, war is hell on earth, but it is not something that can be described in the abstract, if it can be described at all. Such a luxury—available only to the leaders who declare war's beginning and end—is not afforded to those are sent to fight. Following a squad of French volunteers on the Western front, Henri Barbusse provides a realistically brutal vision of death and survival that refuses to glorify the loss of a single life. As a soldier-turned-pacifist, Barbusse brings his reader as close as possible to the trenches and fields of battle in order to dispel the myths that continue to justify and obscure the deaths of the poor and powerless. This edition of Henri Barbusse's Under Fire is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt in Durrell's epic modern classic'A master at creating and handling tension... I was fascinated from the start.'Wilbur Smith David Mountolive, a young English diplomat, has been obsessed with Egypt ever since a youthful love affair. Returning to Alexandria as British Ambassador just before World War Two, he unravels an intricate political and religious conspiracy - one that connects a web of wildly different characters, including an exiled schoolteacher and glamorous Egyptian couple. Mountolive gradually exposes the sinister underbelly of these tangled relationships, their deceptions and betrayals mirroring the explosive turmoil of the modern Middle East - and the result is Durrell's most cinematic masterpiece.'Astonishing... A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.'New York Times Book Review'A masterpiece... Don't be fooled by the richness of the prose, the depth of the passions... Wicked and funny.'Guardian'Dazzlingly exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition, wonderfully prolific in invention... Superb.'Observer VOLUME THREE OF LAWRENCE DURRELL'S ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

On it's surface'Sard Harker'is an adventure novel, and a very successful one at that—pulling the reader along through to its inevitable conclusion. But there's much more than just an adventure story here, including lyrical prose set against a dreamscape of both real and imagined danger.

On it's surface'Sard Harker'is an adventure novel, and a very successful one at that—pulling the reader along through to its inevitable conclusion. But there's much more than just an adventure story here, including lyrical prose set against a dreamscape of both real and imagined danger.

‘Haunting. Geppetto's voice, full of wistful overemphases and bewildered revelation, is absorbing as he takes in the oddity of his situation. And the book, sentence by sentence, offers much in which to luxuriate.'- Sunday Times ‘Profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making'– Max Porter ‘Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight'– A. L. Kennedy ‘A re-imagining of Pinocchio, told from the viewpoint of the beast-entrapped Geppetto, it surprise and delights, and saddens and gladdens, from start to finish.'- Jane Graham I am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten. I have been eaten, yet I am living still. ‘Art objects live in the belly of this marvellous novel, images swallowed by text, sustained by a sublime and loving imagination. Like all Edward Carey's work The Swallowed Man is profound and delightful. It is a strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions; parenting and art-making'Max Porter ‘Strange and lovely'Rhik Samadder'A beautiful and dark meditation on fatherhood, mercy, redemption and the alchemy of isolation. Strange, moving and musical, it's a delight'A. L. Kennedy From the acclaimed author of Little comes this beautiful and haunting imagining of the years Geppetto spends within the belly of a sea beast. Drawing upon the Pinocchio story while creating something entirely his own, Carey tells an unforgettable tale of fatherly love and loss, pride and regret, and of the sustaining power of art and imagination.

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds,'established Wharton as the American'First Lady of Letters''. The story is set in the 1870s, in upper-class,'Gilded-Age'New York City. Wharton wrote the book in her 50s, after she had established herself as a strong author, with publishers clamoring for her work. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York'aristocracy'to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York'aristocracy'to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. This volume contains Edith Wharton'complete works: NOVELS -Fast and Loose -The Touchstone. -The Valley of Decision. -Sanctuary. -The House of Mirth. -Madame de Treymes. -Fruit of the Tree. -Ethan Frome. -The Custom of the Country. -Summer. -The Marne. -The Age of Innocence. -The Glimpses of the Moon. -A Son at the Front. -Old New York: False Dawn. -Old New York: The Old Maid. -Old New York: The Spark. -Old New York: New Year's Day. -The Mother's Recompense. -Twilight Sleep. -The Children. -Hudson River Bracketed. -The Gods Arrive. -The Buccaneers. STORIES. -The Greater Inclination. -Crucial Instances. -The Descent of Man, and other stories. -The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other stories. -Tales of Men and Ghosts. -Xingu, and other Stories. -Here and Beyond. -Certain People. -Human Nature. -The World Over. -Uncollected Stories. POEMS. -Artemis to Actæon, and Other Verse. -Uncollected Poems. NON-FICTION. -The Decoration of Houses. -Italian Villas and Their Gardens. -Italian Backgrounds. -A Motor-Flight through France. -Fighting France from Dunkerque to Belport. -French Ways and Their Meaning. -In Morocco. -The Writing of Fiction. -A Backward Glance.

Una de las grandes obras maestras del siglo XX. Bajo el volcán relata las últimas horas de un hombre en su descenso moral y físico hacia las profundidades del fracaso y la muerte. Es Día de Muertos y Geoffrey Firmin pasea por las cantinas de Quauhnáhuac mientras dos volcanes, el Popocatépetl y el Iztaccíhuatl, se asoman como trágico recordatorio de la crisis que tiene con Yvonne, quien acaba de regresar a México como último recurso para evitar la caída de su matrimonio y de Firmin, su esposo. En 1947 Malcolm Lowry publicó en lengua inglesa una de las obras fundamentales para las letras mexicanas: Bajo el volcán, una suerte de premonición que deviene en profecía, el relato delirante de un hombre arruinado por el alcohol, de los amantes fuera de su elemento, su Edén... Quauhnáhuac es esa ciudad tempestad -tan real como imaginada- de tabernas para beber hasta la sobriedad, de perros callejeros, de indígenas moribundos, de calles serpenteantes por las que desciende una procesión durante el Día de Muertos. Una ciudad poética, el mito de la autodestrucción dominado por dos volcanes y esgrimido por medio de la cábala y el mezcal. Reseñas:«Ejemplo magno de la novela-como-idioma. En mi opinión, no sé si mejor (pero para mí mucho más disfrutable) que esa otra novela-como-idioma que también transcurre en un día: Ulises de James Joyce.»Rodrigo Fresán «Indispensable. Quizás, la novela que mejor expresa el estado etílico. Nadie le ha dedicado tantas páginas a una borrachera como el alcohólico Lowry en esta obra maestra. La ambigüedad de su prosa hace que incluso el lector se sienta ebrio al empaparse de cada párrafo. Para colmo, la estructura se apoya en la célebre Divina Comedia de Dante. Una genialidad.»Carlos Mayoral «Una obra maestra faustiana.»Anthony Burgess «Una de las novelas más sobresalientes del siglo XX.»The New York Times «La obra maestra de Lowry tiene todos los ingredientes para ser considerado uno de los diez libros de ficción más relevantes del siglo XX.»Los Angeles Times «Una de las grandes muestras de prosa inglesa en el crepúsculo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial [...] su recorrido ha sido potente e internacional, figurando a menudo en las listas de'mejores novelas'. Hoy en día es reconocida como un clásico.»Robert McCrum, The Guardian «Acudí al libro conociendo de éste solo su reputación como obra maestra del modernismo inglés. Terminé la lectura considerándolo una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX.»Chris Power, The Guardian «Bajo el volcán es un gran libro sobre la pérdida de la dignidad, sobre la tragedia específica que reside en la incapacidad de escoger la tragedia que uno quiere.»Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books «Un retrato vertiginoso de autodestrucción visto a través de los ojos de un hombre todavía lo suficientemente lúcido como para relatar los detalles más desgarradores.»Time

'En un mundo de hipocresía y traición, ellos se atrevieron a romper las normas'La edad de inocencia es un relato magistral del deseo y la traición durante la Edad de Oro del viejo Nueva York. Todo en la vida de Newland Archer parece estar perfectamente encaminado; es parte de la alta sociedad, tiene un trabajo de alto poder y una hermosa prometida, May Welland. Sin embargo, cuando la misteriosa prima de May, la condesa Ellen Olenska, regresa a Nueva York tras huir de un terrible matrimonio, Newland se enamora rápidamente de ella. Dividido entre el deber y la pasión, las expectativas y el escándalo, Newland lucha por tomar una decisión imposible.Esta novela fue ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura de 1921 y del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción. Entre las adaptaciones cinematográficas se destaca la película de Martin Scorsese de 1993, protagonizada por Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder y Daniel Day-Lewis.-

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Welcome to the 3 Books To Know series, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. - The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington. - The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. - One of Ours by Willa Cather.This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.

The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna'Hannele'zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D. H. Lawrence's idiosyncratic'wicked triangles'. The intimate relationship between Captain Alexander Hepburn and Hannele is intruded upon when the captain's wife Evangeline travels to Germany suspicious of foul play. (Wikipedia)

A classic Lawrence novel of sensual awakening and the yearning for freedom, and winner of the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The daughter of well-to-do trades people in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries that she is condemned to become an old maid. After plans to elope with her lover to Australia and train as a nurse in London lead to nothing, she joins a traveling theater group and succumbs to the charms of the dark, passionate Italian Ciccio. (Goodreads)

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York's most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world of Fifth Avenue society inside out. However, with the arrival of May's cousin, the free-spirited and unconventional Countess Ellen Olenska, Newland begins to doubt all that once seemed so natural to him. An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York high society in the 1870s – the world in which Edith Wharton grew up – The Age of Innocence shines a critical light on the social mores and values of the old order.

Newland Archer could not dream of anyone better suited to be his fiancée than his beloved, May Welland. She's innocent and beautiful and comes from a well-regarded aristocratic family. So why can't Newland stop thinking about May's cousin, the scandalous Countess Ellen Olenska? Not only does the Countess wear revealing clothing and express unconventional (and unpopular) views, she's also rumored to have done the unacceptable: divorce her husband, the Polish Count. Yet despite it all, Newland cannot help but feel that May is a bland debutante compared to her cousin. As their wedding approaches, Archer must decide if the rules of society are more important than his personal happiness. First published in 1920, this is an unabridged version of Edith Warton's Pulitzer Prize-winning American novel.

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Edith Wharton was a prominent American author in the early 20th century. With classics such as The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome, Wharton is still one of the most read authors today. This collection includes the following: NOVELS: The Touchstone The Valley of Decision Sanctuary The House of Mirth Madame de Treymes The Fruit of the Tree Ethan Frome The Reef The Custom of the Country Bunner Sisters Summer The Marne The Age of Innocence The Glimpses of the Moon SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: The Greater Inclination Crucial Instances The Descent of Man and Other Stories The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories Tales of Men and Ghosts OTHER SHORT STORIES: Xingu The Choice Coming Home The Triumph of Night Kerfol Autres Temps The Long Run POETRY: Artemis to Actaeon NON-FICTION: Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort In Morocco

Radclyffe Hall was an influential early 20th-century English author and poet. Hall is famous for writing The Well of Loneliness which is one of the most famous works in lesbian literature. This edition includes a table of contents.

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents. D.H. Lawrence was a controversial British author in the early 20th century. Lawrence's works have been better received after his death in 1930. This collection includes the following: NOVELS The White Peacock The Trespasser Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love The Lost Girl Aaron's Rod Kangaroo The Boy in the Bush The Plumed Serpent Lady Chatterley's Lover The Escaped Cock TRAVEL BOOKS Sea and Sardinia Twilight in Italy

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents. D.H. Lawrence was a controversial British author in the early 20th century. Lawrence's works gained more positive recognition after his death in 1930. This collection includes the following: NOVELS The White Peacock The Trespasser Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love The Lost Girl Aaron's Rod TRAVEL BOOKS Sea and Sardinia Twilight in Italy

Larnaca Press makes the world's greatest literature available at the touch of a button for less than a dollar, and every book has a linked table of contents to make reading easier. The Age of Innocence, written by Edith Wharton, is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The book won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction which made Wharton the first woman to win the award. The story centers around an upper-class couple in New York City.

Initially serialized in the Pictorial Review in 1920, The Age of Innocence is a stylistic and intimate portrayal of upper class life in New York City during the Gilded Age. Lawyer and socialite Newland Archer is about to enter a loveless marriage with a well-to-do bride, when her cousin, the exotic Ellen Olenska, enters the picture. Olenska is stuck in a bad marriage with a Polish count, and Archer finds himself in the awkward position of persuading her to save her family's reputation by staying with her husband, even though Archer himself has fallen in love with her.Combining a romantic tragedy with artful descriptions of aristocratic life in New York City, Edith Wharton's twelfth novel is now available with a new introduction. The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the essential works of classic authors from around the world in stunning editions to be collected and enjoyed.

D.H. Lawrence was an English author in the early 20th century. Lawrence's books were considered controversial at the time they were written and many were banned. Because of the censorship, Lawrence's books became more popular as time passed. This edition of The Plumed Serpent includes a table of contents.

This file includes: An African Millionaire, The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories, Biographies of Working Men, The British Barbarians, Charles Darwin, Early Britain, Falling In Love, The Great Taboo, Hilda Wade, Michael's Crag, Miss Cayley's Adventures, Philistia, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Recalled to Life, Science in Arcady, Strange STories, What's Bred in the Bone, The White Man's Foot, and The Woman Did It. According to Wikipedia:'Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.'

Henri Barbusse was a French writer and a member of the French Communist Party. Barbusse first became famous for his book Under Fire. This edition includes a table of contents.

David Herbert Lawrence (September 11, 1885 March 2, 1930) was an English author who based much of his work off of his family life. Some of Lawrences books were banned in England due to the sexual content they contained. Despite the controversial nature of his works, few can deny Lawrence was a very talented writer. Some of Lawrences best known works are Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterleys Lover.

Classic novel, first published in 1920. According to Wikipedia:'David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.'

Three unforgettable novels from a New York Times–bestselling author—including Black Narcissus, which “bears comparison with A Passage to India” (Arthur Koestler). With Black Narcissus, her novel of five nuns in a remote Himalayan convent struggling against nature—both physical and human—Rumer Godden established her impeccable literary reputation. TheNew York Times wrote of her work: “Her craftsmanship is always sure; her understanding of character is compassionate and profound; her prose is pure, delicate, and gently witty.” Having spent her formative years in colonial India, she would continue to return to that setting for inspiration in several subsequent novels, each of them “beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity” (Los Angeles Times). Black Narcissus: Led by Sister Clodagh, the youngest Mother Superior in the history of their order, the European Sisters of the Servants of Mary take up residence in an abandoned palace in the foothills of the Himalayas, where an Indian general once housed his harem. The sisters hope to establish a school and clinic to combat superstition, ignorance, and disease. But the isolation and mountain altitude, the ghosts and lurid history, and one young nun's unhealthy obsession with their royal benefactor's agent, Mr. Dean, threaten to undermine the best intentions of the purest hearts. Black Narcissus was made into an Academy Award–winning film starring Deborah Kerr and directed by Michael Powell. “A very remarkable novel.” —The Observer Breakfast with the Nikolides: As the Nazi juggernaut rolls through occupied France, Louise Poole is forced to flee Paris with her two daughters and return to East Bengal and the husband she left. Despite Louise's hatred of rural India, eleven-year-old Emily is intrigued by her exotic new home, left free to explore—and enjoy the hospitality of her glamorous neighbors, the Nikolides. But as the cracks in her parents'marriage become more obvious, an act of thoughtless cruelty ultimately shatters the tenuous bonds of family, violently disrupting the lives of the Pooles and the community. “A fascinating book... It is absorbing and as original... as Black Narcissus.” —Kirkus Reviews The River: The Second World War seems very far away for eleven-year-old Harriet, the daughter of a British businessman, and her home in Bengal, India, along the Ganges River—until the arrival of a handsome wounded soldier. Harriet is entranced by their new neighbor, Captain John, but unprepared for the rush of unfamiliar emotions he stirs up in her: longing, jealousy, and infatuation. Inspired by the author's personal experiences growing up in India, The River is an evocative and bittersweet coming of age story. The River was made into a film directed by Jean Renoir. “So intense, so quietly demanding of attention, that at the time there will be nothing in your thoughts but a small girl in India, and the people and places that were her world.” —Saturday Review