Also included in this edition are a chronology of Wharton's life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.
The Library of America now brings these brilliant works together for the first time in the fifth volume of its ongoing edition of Wharton's works.
This volume collects the bulk of Wharton's significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished.
Assembling her miscellaneous critical writings (including some newly discovered texts), this authoritative edition makes an exceptional contribution not only to the ongoing "Wharton revival" but to the study of American literature, of ...
This edition contains the complete works of Edith Wharton: 22 novels and novellas, 11 story collections with 85 stories, 2 collections of poetry, and 9 non-fiction books. The collection is sorted chronologically by literary genres.
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.
In this volume, Wharton's humor is abundantly evident in sly and subtle stories like "Xingu" (in which a ladies' reading group is led to express its enthusiasm for an occult philosophy) and "Charm Incorporated" (about a mild-mannered Wall ...
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Edith Wharton
A biography of the American author known for her psychological examination of the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society.
Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography.
From Hermione Lee, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning biographer of Virginia Woolf and Willa Cather, comes a superb reexamination of one of the most famous American women of letters.Delving into heretofore untapped sources, Lee ...
This an American writer".--The New York Times Book Review.
"The world knows Edith Wharton the writer: the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, the chronicler of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century social mores, the author of such remarkable books as...
David M. Robinson , Emerson and the Conduct of Life 69. Cary Wolfe , The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson 68. Andrew Levy , The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story 67.
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.
Lily's plight has a parallel in Wharton's career as the elegant scribe of upper-class New York society, the novelist of manners and decor. Cynthia Griffin Wolff calls The House of Mirth Wharton's “first Kunstlerroman,” and in important ...
There must always have been a great temptation for Edith Wharton to follow James's example and locate her subject in the ... best fiction, including The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, and even The Reef, ...
It was not so much his great height that marked him, for the "natives" were easily singled out by their lank longitude from the stockier foreign breed: it was the careless powerful look he had, The novel "Ethan Frome" by the Pulitzer Prize ...
"The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton " by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton was pulitzer prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer (1862-1937).