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Books by Edith Wharton

Born: 1862; Died: 1937
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Edith Wharton Biography & Notes


Born Edith Newbold Jones, to a wealthy New York family, Edith combined her insights into the privileged classes with her natural wit to write novels and short fiction which are notable for their humor and incisiveness.

In 1885, aged 23, she married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton, who was twelve years her senior. They were divorced in 1913. For several years at the end of her tumultous, unhappy marriage, she had an affair with William Morton Fullerton (1865-1952), an American-born bisexual man-about-town who worked as a journalist for the Times and juggled romances with Lord Ronald Gower, the Ranee of Sarawak, and Camille Chabbert, aka Ixo, an opera singer who was reported to be a mistress of the King of Portugal.

Between 1900 and 1938, Wharton wrote many novels, starting in 1905 with the publication of the The House of Mirth, a story that attacked the aristocratic society of which she was a most prominent member. An admirer of European culture and architecture, Edith Wharton crossed the Atlantic 66 times during her life.

She was living on the very fashionable rue de Varenne in Paris, France when World War I began, and, using her many high level connections within the French government, she was allowed to travel extensively by motorcar to the front lines. In Paris, she worked for the Red Cross and with refugees, for which she was awarded the French L�gion d'honneur (Legion of Honor). Following the War, she returned to the United States only one more time in her life.

Although most were poor and not part of her refined world, she was fascinated and encouraged by the gathering of the artistic community in Montmartre and Montparnasse at the turn of the century.

Her best known work, The Age of Innocence, won her a Pulitzer Prize and was written in 1920. She spoke flawless French and many of her books were published in both French and English.

Wharton was friend and confidant of many gifted intellectuals of her time: Theodore Roosevelt, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway were all guests of hers at one time or another. She was also good friends with Henry James and Jean Cocteau.

Wharton continued writing until her death on August 11, 1937, in St.-Brice-sous-For�t, Val-d'Oise, �le-de-France, France. She is buried in the Cimetiere des Gonards, Versailles, France.


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38 Short Stories by American Women Writers 38 Short Stories by American Women Writers Five Books by Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather ( 1996)
Afterward by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ( 1999)
Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection.
        Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage.

Commentary by William Lyon Phelps and E. M. Forster
American Classics Collection The Age of Innocence, My Antonia, Little Women, the Scarlett Letter by Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Alcotthawthorne ( 2000)
The American Experience The American Experience A Collection of Great American Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, O. Henry, Sarah Orne Jewett ( 2003)
Artemis To Actaeon And Other Verse by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Artemis to Actaeon & Other Verse by Edith Wharton ( 1998)
A Backward Glance A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton ( 1998)
Wharton's fans, as well as readers eager to learn more about the literary, social, and historical forces that shaped this honored American author, are certain to be informed and entertained by this excellent self-portrait. 9 photos.
The Best Man by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Bolted Door by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Book of the Homeless by ( 2005)
The Buccaneers The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
Finally finished by writer Marion Mainwaring, Edith Wharton's timeless story is as riveting today as any written in her own time. Set in the 1870s, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls whose money is too "new" to get them into society.
Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton ( 2009)
The Children The Children by Edith Wharton ( 1998)
In The Children, an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton created a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers and-sisters grown weary of being shuttled from parent to parent 'like bundles, ' are eager for their parents' latest reconciliation to last. A chance meeting between the children and the solitary forty-six-year old Martin Boyne leads to a series of unforgettable encounters.
Classic American Short Stories Classic American Short Stories by Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather ( 2001)
Classic Women's Literature Classic Women's Literature by Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Jane Austen ( 2002)
Contains selections from Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, and Willa Cather.
The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 1987)
Wharton's sharp-eyed, subtle, and penetrating stories portray lives lived under the stultifying weight of upper-class conventions.
Collected Stories, 1911-1937 Collected Stories, 1911-1937 by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
Contains twenty-nine short stories exploring the author's themes of relations between the sexes, satire of social class, character, and morality.
Coming Home by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
The Cruise of the Vanadis The Cruise of the Vanadis by Edith Wharton, Jonas Dovydenas ( 2004)
Full-color photographs highlight Wharton's account of her three-month 1888 cruise aboard a chartered yacht through the Aegean Islands, in an anthology of writings that includes the author's detailed descriptions of the places she visited, the people she met, and the hotels in which she stayed.
The Custom of the Country The Custom of the Country Adapted from the Novel by Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
This stage version of Wharton's sprawling novel dissecting the New York social scene focuses on the beautiful, but predatory, Undine Spragg and the men in her life. Representing a world motivated by a heartless desire for power and status, Undine takes on lovers and husbands, discarding them when her whims of iron move her. Hitchcock has captured the satiric brilliance of the original work, while managing to transform a narrative of over 500 pages into a tightly-wrought stage piece. In process, she provides a finely-drawn portrait of an unforgettable heroine against the background of a cruel social milieu dominated by rigid class distinctions and deeply-ingrained prejudices.
The Custom of the Country The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from America’s heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton’s critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.
The Decoration of Houses The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman ( 1998)
The expanded edition of this classic text on interior design includes an Introduction by Henry Hope Reed, critical essays, and a portfolio of color plates, along with its original illustrations.
The Descent Of Man And Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Descent of Man And Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
The Descent of Man And Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
The Early Short Fiction Of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 2008)
Edith Wharton Edith Wharton by Emily Hutchinson, Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Edith Wharton Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 1990)
The second Edith Wharton volume in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment.
Edith Wharton Abroad Edith Wharton Abroad Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920 by Edith Wharton ( 1996)
These carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel"--the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. Included is an excerpt from Wharton's unpublished memoir, The Cruise of Vanadis, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during World War I. Photos.
The Edith Wharton Omnibus by Edith Wharton ( 1978)
Edith Wharton Reader by Edith Wharton ( 1989)
Gathers selections from Wharton's memoirs, short stories, poetry, and major novels.
Edith Wharton Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens Edith Wharton's Italian Gardens by Vivian Russell, Edith Wharton ( 2006)
This is a story of two journeys, separated by almost a century, yet both focusing on Italian gardens. In 1903, Edith Wharton was commissioned by "Century Magazine" to write a series of articles on Italian villas and gardens. Nearly 100 years later, Vivian Russell follows in her footsteps.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Dawn Keeler ( 1995)
Eternal Passion in English Poetry by Edith Wharton ( 1939)
Ethan Frome Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff ( 1995)
Set against the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome tells the story of a poor farmer, lonely and downtrodden, his wife Zeena, and her cousin, the enchanting Mattie Silver. In the playing out of this short novel's powerful and engrossing drama, Edith Wharton constructed her least characteristic and most celebrated book. In its unyielding and shocking pessimism, its bleak demonstration of tragic waste, it is a masterpiece of psychological and emotional realism. In her introduction the distinguished critic Elaine Showalter discusses the background to the novel's composition and the reasons for its enduring success.
Ethan Frome And Selected Stories Ethan Frome And Selected Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Ethan Frome With Connections by Edith Wharton ( 2000)
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
In addition to Ethan Frome, this Bantam Classic edition contains the novella The Touchstone and three short stories, "The Last Asset", "The Other Two", and "Xingu".
Ethan Frome and Other Stories Ethan Frome and Other Stories by Edith Wharton, Harold Bloom ( 1996)
A reprint of the 1911 first edition of Wharton's classic novel chronicles a story of the secret love, jealousy, and guilt that exist behind the seemingly tranquil existence of a New England farm.
Ethan Frome and Summer Ethan Frome and Summer by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
In the first novel, a New England farmer must choose between his duty to care for his invalid wife and his love for her cousin, and in the second novel, Charity Royall enjoys an idyllic summer romance with visiting architect Lucius Harvey.
The Everyday Writer 2nd Edition Bound With 2001 Apa Update And House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, Shari Benstock ( 2002)
Expiation by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Eyes by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
False Dawn False Dawn by Edith Wharton ( 2000)
In 1840s Europe, Lewis Raycie follows his domineering father's orders to purchase art, but ends up being disinherited when he follows his intuition and selects pieces that are ahead of their time. Read by Derek Jacobi.
Fast and Loose And the Buccaneers by Edith Wharton ( 1993)
With an Edith Wharton revival well under way, Fast and Loose, a romantic first novel begun when Wharton was fourteen, and The Buccaneers, left unfinished when she died at seventy-five, are now back in print and available for the first time in one edition.
Fast and Loose and the Buccaneers by Edith Wharton ( 1993)
Contains the first and last novels written by Wharton, both with the theme of women trapped by social convention and fateful forces into destructive marriages.
Fighting France by Edith Wharton ( 1991)
Fighting France from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton ( 1975)
French Ways and Their Meaning French Ways and Their Meaning by Edith Wharton, Mary Ann Caws, Diane De Margerie ( 1997)
Essays about the French and their culture written during World War I.
The Fruit Of The Tree by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Fruit of the Tree The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
Originally published in 1907, The Fruit of the Tree followed Ms. Wharton's hugely successful novel, The House of Mirth. Set in The Berkshires and Long Island, The Fruit of the Tree is a bitter sweet romance wherein love almost conquers all.
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was twenty-seven or -eight, I could not sleep in the room with a book containing a ghost story." Once her fear was overcome, however, she took to writing tales of the super natural for publication in the magazines of the day. These eleven finely wrought piece showcase her mastery of the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other supernatural phenomena. Called "flawlessly eerie" by Ms. magazine, this collection includes "Pomegranate Seed," "The Eyes," "All Souls'," "The looking Glass," and "The Triumph of Night."
The Ghost-Feeler The Ghost-Feeler Stories of Terror and the Supernatural by Edith Wharton, Peter Haining ( 1996)
Ghosts by Edith Wharton ( 1993)
The Glimpses Of The Moon by Edith Wharton ( 1996)
Glimpses of the Moon Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
The Glimpses of the Moon The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton ( 1996)
Set in the 1920s, Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They devise a shrewd bargain: they'll marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas. As Susy explains, "We should really, in a way, help more than hamper each other. We both know the ropes so well; what one of us didn't see the other might - in the way of opportunities, I mean". The other part of the plan states that if either one of them meets someone who can advance them socially, they're free to dissolve the marriage. How their plan unfolds is a comedy of eros that will charm all fans of Wharton's work.
God's Arrive God's Arrive by Edith Wharton ( 1985)
Hudson River Editions are a series of reprints of outstanding standard titles from our backlist. They include classic works of fiction, reference, biography, history, religion and philosophy, literary criticism, and natural and social sciences, as well as books for young readers.
Great American Women's Fiction Great American Women's Fiction by Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( 1995)
The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton ( 1988)
The Hermit And The Wild Woman And Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
Un Hijo En El Frente by Edith Wharton ( 2002)
The House Of The Dead Hand by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The House of Mirth The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton ( 1999)
A satire of New York society at the turn of the century follows Lily Bart, who is torn between the pressure to marry a wealthy husband and her desire to remain true to herself. Reprint.
The House of Mirth/Pride and Prejudice/Death Comes for the Archbishop by Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Jane Austen ( 1993)
Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ruthlessly materialistic world. Mercilessly, Wharton exposes the cruelty and indifference of a society in which such a woman has no role except to be exploited and looked down upon. Nor does she neglect to expose the vanity and delusions of poor Lily herself--qualities that undermine her considerable intelligence and charm. As always, Wharton is writing about a world she knows first-hand, and one in which she suffered her own trials. The complex and poignant tale of Lily Bart is one of her most popular and successful novels
Hudson River Bracketed Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton ( 1985)
The story of Vance Weston, a young novelist-of-manners from the town of Euphoria, Illinois, and his apprenticeship in the New York publishing world.
In Morocco In Morocco by Edith Wharton ( 1999)
In Trust by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Introducers by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Italian Backgrounds Italian Backgrounds by Edith Wharton ( 1998)
Italian Villas and Their Gardens by Edith Wharton ( 1976)
Kerfol by Edith Wharton ( 2007)
LA Casa De LA Alegria LA Casa De LA Alegria by Edith Wharton ( 1984)
LA Solterona by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
La Edad De La Inocencia/the Age of Innocence La Edad De La Inocencia/the Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
La Renuncia by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Lady's Maid's Bell by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Last Asset by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Letters by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Letters of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton, Nancy Lewis, R. W. B. Lewis ( 1988)
Lettres a L'ami Francais by Edith Wharton, Claudine Lesage, Leon Belugou ( 2001)
The Long Run by Edith Wharton ( 2008)
Madame De Treymes by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
Wharton's first work after THE HOUSE OF MIRTH was MADAME DE TREYMES, a portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. It tells the story of a transplanted New Yorker, Fanny Frisbee, who is unhappily married to a marquis, and of her American lover who comes to Paris to take her away. This volume also includes THE TOUCHSTONE, SANCTUARY, and THE BUNNER SISTERS.
Madame De Treymes and Other Stories Madame De Treymes and Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 1981)
Wharton's first work after THE HOUSE OF MIRTH was MADAME DE TREYMES, a portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. It tells the story of a transplanted New Yorker, Fanny Frisbee, who is unhappily married to a marquis, and of her American lover who comes to Paris to take her away. This volume also includes THE TOUCHSTONE, SANCTUARY, and THE BUNNER SISTERS.
Madame De Treymes and Three Novellas Madame De Treymes and Three Novellas by Edith Wharton ( 1995)
Madame de Treymes, Edith Wharton's first publication after the highly successful The House of Mirth, is a captivating portrait of turn-of-the-century American and French culture. Inspired by Wharton's own entré into Parisian society in 1906 and reminiscent of the works of Henry James, it tells the story of two young innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, and John Durham, her childhood friend who arrives in Paris intent on convincing Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A subtle investigation of the clash of cultures and the role of women in the social hierarchy, Madame de Treymes confirms Edith Wharton's position, as Edmund Wilson wrote, as "an historian of the American society of her time." This Scribner edition of Madame de Treymes also includes three novellas: The Touchstone, Sanctuary, and Bunner Sisters. These short works are rich in the social satire and cunning insight that characterized Wharton's highly acclaimed novels The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth.
Madame De Treymes and the Touchstone by Edith Wharton ( 1987)
Les Metteurs En Scene by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton ( 2000)
An unconventional story of incest, jealousy, and coincidence, told from the point-of-view of an aging expatriate woman.
A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton ( 1991)
The Moving Finger and Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 2002)
The Muse's Tragedy and Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 1990)
A selection of twenty early short stories deal with marriage, social tragedies, and the conflict between money and virtue, delusion and integrity, and life and art.
New York Novels New York Novels The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ( 1998)
No one chronicled Old New York better than Edith Wharton, and the Modern Library has selected four of her best-known novels to represent the time period: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY, and OLD NEW YORK, a collection of four novellas.The novels explore the dilemma of women and men held within the rigid bounds of social convention, often revolving around marriage. In The House of Mirth, the novel that brought Edith Wharton to fame, Lily Bart must choose between the superficial values of the nouveaux riches and having a more meaningful life. In The Custom of the Country, the energetic and ambitious Undine Spragg works her way to wealth and power through a succession of marriages. Newland Archer in The Age of Innocence is caught in an agony of indecision: whether he should choose the duty of a socially approved marriage, or the love of a woman frowned upon by "decent" society.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Edith Wharton ( 1998)
The Old Maid The Old Maid The Fifties by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her—the beautiful, upstanding Delia—and her true mother, her plain, unmarried “aunt” Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life. The three women live quietly together until Tina’s wedding day, when Delia’s and Charlotte’s hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Says Roxana Robinson in her Introduction, “Wharton weaves her golden, fine-meshed net about her characters with inexorable precision.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the original magazine publication.
Old New York Old New York Four Novellas by Edith Wharton ( 1995)
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence come four masterly short novels of New York during the 19th century, revealing with subtle irony the customs and tribal codes that ruled Society.
Other Times, Other Manners by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Other Two by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Portable Edith Wharton The Portable Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
The Pot Boiler by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Quicksand by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Reckoning by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Recovery by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Reef Reef by Edith Wharton ( 1996)
Edith Wharton was at the height of her enormous literary powers when she published The Reef in 1912, and everything about this novel suggests a mastery so complete that it can achieve nothing higher. The plot, which tells of the drastic effects of a casual sexual betrayal on the lives of four Americans in France, is expertly turned, suspenseful, continually compelling. An assured, unhurried dramatic instinct governs the great moments of confrontation and revelation. The central characters, two of whom are innocents and two of whom are burdened by experience and tinged with desperation, are perfectly delineated: their relationships to one another are constructed with a classical feeling for harmony, proportion, and balance. And the entire novel is imbued with a clear-eyed wisdom about both the possibilities and the limitations of human love. Wharton would go on to write splendid books after completing The Reef, but nowhere does she display a finer command of her art than she does here.
The Refugees by Edith Wharton ( 2008)
The Rembrandt by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Roman Fever Roman Fever by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
Roman Fever and Other Stories Roman Fever and Other Stories by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
These short works display Wharton's talent as a satirist "skilled at dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social constrictions" (Cythina Griffin Wolfe, from the Introduction).
Sanctuary Sanctuary by Edith Wharton ( 2001)
The Seed Of The Faith by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 1991)
In The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, has culled twenty-one of her best stories, here available in a single volume for the first time.
Short Stories Short Stories by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
Six superbly crafted tales: "Souls belated," "The Pelican," "The Muse's Tragedy," "Exipiation," "The Dilettante" and "Xingu."
A Son at the Front A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton ( 1995)
Edith Wharton's 1922 novel about the collision between a group of uninvolved American expatriates in Paris and patriotic French nationals, when the half-French son of an American painter's decision to fight in World War I.
Souls Belated by Edith Wharton ( 2007)
Sparknotes Ethan Frome Sparknotes Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
The Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton ( 1988)
Wharton's sharp-eyed, subtle, and penetrating stories portray lives lived under the stultifying weight of upper-class conventions.
Summer Summer Library Edition by Edith Wharton ( 1993)
One of Edith Wharton's personal favorites, Summer "breaks, or stretches, many conventions of romandc love stories and in the process creates a new picture of female sexuality" (Marilyn French, from the Introduction). Like Wharton's more famous novel Ethan Frome, Summer is set in the Berkshires. But the chilly hills that set the background for Ethan's tentative, ill-fated romance have been replaced by a landscape bathed in sun -- and the figure at the center of Summer is a vibrant and passionate young woman, Charity Royall. A New Englander of humble origins, Charity is swept into a torrid love affair with Lucien Harney, an artistically inclined young man from New York City. The conventions that rule society, however, are just as potent in Charity's world as in Ethan Frome's, and her dreams, like his, are inevitably thwarted. In her refreshing Introduction, novelist Marilyn French delves into the themes of female sexuality and feminist sentiment present not only in this novel, but in Wharton's work as a whole. A bold, provocative work, Summer was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1917, and stands as one of Wharton's greatest achievements.
Tales Of Men And Ghosts by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Tales of Men And Ghosts by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
Tales of Men And Ghosts Tales of Men And Ghosts by Edith Wharton ( 2005)
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
Le Temps De L'Innocence/Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE is Edith Wharton's insider's look at New York society at a time when an address above 12th Street was considered the wild frontier. May Welland, demure and pretty, is born and bred to marry Newland Archer, a thoughtful barrister. He in turn loves the brazen, unconventional, and attractive Countess Ellen Olenska, who has left her Count behind in Europe and returned to New York alone to get over a bad marriage. As the delicacies of this love triangle are played out, Wharton takes the opportunity to effect a subtle critique of America's East Coast upper classes, not only painting a deliciously detailed portrait of old New York and the rigid rules that governed society, but also providing readers with entertainment of the highest order. With this novel, Edith Wharton became, in 1921, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize.
Three Novels of Old New York Three Novels of Old New York The House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, the Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
Wharton's acclaimed portrayals of life, love, and marriage among New York's wealthy society in the early years of this century depict with subtle irony the cruelties of social conventions and the contradictions between monetary values and moral values. These three novels are the best representations of Wharton's intuitive insight.
Timeless Classics Timeless Classics by Jack London, Edith Wharton, James Thurber, D. H. Lawrence, Shirley Jackson, Raymond Carver, Richard Connell ( 2006)
To Be Read by Candlelight Two Tales of Suspense by Edith Wharton ( 2000)
The Touchstone by Edith Wharton ( 2008)
Twilight Sleep Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing - these are the remarkably modern themes that animate Twilight Sleep. The extended family of Mrs. Manford is determined to escape the pain, boredom and emptiness of life through whatever form of "twilight sleep" they can devise or procure. And though the characters and their actions may seem more in keeping with today's society, this is still a classic Wharton tale of the upper crust and its undoing - wittily, masterfully told.
Two Novels by Edith Wharton Ethan Frome, and Summer by Edith Wharton ( 1993)
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton ( 2002)
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton ( 1994)
A Venetian Night's Entertainment by Edith Wharton ( 2004)
Vieja Nueva York / Old New York Vieja Nueva York / Old New York by Edith Wharton ( 2003)
Wharton's New England Seven Stories and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ( 1995)
Although Edith Wharton is usually identified with the "old New York" of such masterworks as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, she spent ten years living and writing in New England, a setting that appears in two novels, a novella, and fully a quarter of her short stories. In these works Wharton turns from portraying the monied and the mannered to probing inscrutable psyches and souls. The New England of these tales - which range from light comedy to horror - becomes a metaphor for fierce poverty, cultural barrenness, and an oppressive Puritan heritage that both fascinated and repelled Wharton. Thus the frigid, engulfing winter of Starkfield buries Ethan Frome in a living death. That sense of moral and emotional confinement also appears in "The Angel at the Grave", as a young woman senses she has been "walled alive into a tomb hung with the effigies of dead ideas". In "The Lamp of Psyche", a visit to Boston relatives sheds new light on a woman's marriage; "Xingu" gently satirizes the snobbery of small-town "huntresses of erudition"; "Bewitched" and "All Souls" explore the theme of witchcraft. Barbara A. White's insightful introduction suggests that in these stories Wharton "seems to have projected onto New England aspects of herself that she most feared: repression, coldness, inarticulateness, mental starvation, and even lack of high culture".
Words of Ages Witnessing U.S. History Through Literature by Frederick Douglass, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton ( 2000)
The Writing of Fiction The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton ( 1997)
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various approaches to writing a piece of fiction, and the development of form and style. She also devotes entire chapters to the telling of a short story, the construction of a novel, and the importance of character and situation in the novel. Not only a valuable treatise on the art of writing, The Writing of Fiction also allows readers to experience the inimitable but seldom heard voice of one of America's most important and beloved writers, and includes a final chapter on the pros and cons of Marcel Proust.
Xingu by Edith Wharton ( 1939)
Xingu and More by Edith Wharton ( 1991)
Yrs. Ever Affly Yrs. Ever Affly The Correspondence of Eith Wharton and Louis Bromfield by Edith Wharton, Louis Bromfield, Daniel L. Bratton ( 2000)
Zeena A Novel by Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Cooke ( 1996)
In a reworking of the book Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, Zenobia Frome is given her own voice, which she uses to tell of the events and emotions that led her to residing in the New England town of Starkfield.
El arrecife/ The Reef by Edith Wharton ( 2002)

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