Edith Wharton

  • Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910
    By Edith Wharton

    Also included in this edition are a chronology of Wharton's life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.

  • Edith Wharton: Four Novels of the 1920s
    By Edith Wharton

    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.

  • Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
    By Edith Wharton

    This volume collects the bulk of Wharton's significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished.

  • Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings
    By Edith Wharton

    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 ...

  • Edith Wharton: The Complete Writings (Arthur Wallens Classics)
    By Edith Wharton

    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.

  • Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
    By Edith Wharton

    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.

  • Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 2 1911-1937 (LOA #122)
    By Edith Wharton

    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 ...

  • Edith Wharton: Art and Allusion
    By Helen Killoran

    Among the dancers Dexter recognized Nona's cousin , Bee Lindon , and Lita Wyant , his step daughter - in - law . The headline , “ Dawnside Co - Eds , ” suggests that the nude dancing was performed for a male audience .

  • Edith Wharton
    By R. H. Lawson

    Edith Wharton

  • Edith Wharton
    By Richard Worth

    A biography of the American author known for her psychological examination of the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society.

  • Edith Wharton
    By Janet Beer

    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.

  • Edith Wharton
    By Hermione Lee

    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 ...

  • Edith Wharton: A Biography
    By Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis

    This an American writer".--The New York Times Book Review.

  • Edith Wharton: A House Full of Rooms, Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens
    By Edith Wharton, Theresa Craig

    "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...

  • Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit
    By Carol J. Singley

    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.

  • Edith Wharton: Complete Works
    By Edith Wharton

    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.

  • Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays
    By Alfred Bendixen, Annette Zilversmit

    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 ...

  • Edith Wharton: A Study of Her Fiction
    By Blake Nevius

    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, ...

  • Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome (English Edition)
    By Edith Wharton

    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 ...

  • Edith Wharton: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton
    By Edith Wharton

    "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).