Edith Wharton: Complete Works
- ISBN-10
- 9176377814
- ISBN-13
- 9789176377819
- Series
- Edith Wharton
- Category
- Fiction
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-09-19
- Publisher
- Wisehouse Classics
- Author
- Edith Wharton
Description
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.
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