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Author
Series
Library of America ; 47
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
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in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment.
3) Novels
Author
Series
Library of America ; 30
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America ; 121
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1911-1937), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her career. Here, in settings familiar and exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 122
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1891-1910), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her astonishing career. Here, in settings familiar and exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thousands of books on interior design have come and gone since the 1897 publication of this pioneering manual, but The Decoration of Houses remains, thanks to the insightful and inspiring advice of its co-authors. Before she became the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of “The Age of Innocence”, Edith Wharton was a society matron, remodeling a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island. With the able assistance of architect Ogden Codman, Jr., Wharton...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
15) Old New York
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1924, Wharton's collection of four short novels reveals the customs and social orders of mid-19th-century New York--Novelist.
Author
Publisher
N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
In his brilliant introduction to the present volume, the noted writer Gore Vidal makes this comment: "At best, there are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major' and Edith Wharton is one. ... I can only say that I envy anyone reading for the first time The Age of Innocence or New Year's Day." In these works, as in most of Mrs. Wharton's fiction, her subject is America's upper classes as they flourished in the late 19th...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in rural New England, "Ethan Frome" is the story of its title character who marries Zenobia, a nagging hypochondriac of a woman, and finds himself trapped in an unfulfilling life. When Zenobia's young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, Frome falls in love with her. "Ethan Frome" is the story of forbidden love and its tragic consequences. In "Summer" we have the story of the sexual awakening of a young woman, Charity Royall. Charity,...
19) New York novels
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The House of Mirth (1905), the bestseller that established Wharton's reputation, recounts the story of the beguiling Lily Bart, whose efforts to retain her class standing by marrying a man of sufficient means and status are her ultimate undoing. The Custom of the Country (1913) is the saga of the ruthlessly grasping Undine Spragg, who cycles through husband after husband in a vain attempt at happiness; alas, whatever she can't have is what she most...
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