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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

These 20 short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times). “Edith Wharton . . . remains one of the most potent names in the literature of New York.” —New York Times Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged. Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.

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New York Review of Books

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1590174364

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9781590174364

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

Volume I

By: Edith Wharton

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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

Volume I

By: Edith Wharton

Reproduction of the original: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton

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118

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3732652327

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9783732652327

The Portable Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

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The Portable Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

This unique collection is a rich representation of the works of one of the greatest 20th-century American writers, best known for her novels depicting the stifling conformity and ceremoniousness of the upper-class New York society into which she was born.

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692

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Penguin

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0142437581

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9780142437582

Summer

By: Edith Wharton

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Summer

By: Edith Wharton

OF INTEREST TO: readers of modern American literature, Wharton fans She lay on the warm ridge, thinking of many thing that the woodsman's appearance had stirred up in her. She knew nothing of her early life, and had never felt any curiosity about it: only a sullen reluctance to explore the corner of her memory where certain blurred images lingered. But all that had happened to her within the last few weeks had stirred her to the sleeping depths... -from Summer The sly wit and penetrating wisdom of Edith Wharton-one of the most celebrated novelists in the English language-shines through in this 1917 work, one of her rare "country" novels. Here, small-town librarian Charity Royall is awakened to the limitations of her life-and introduced to the power of passion-by the seductive Lucius Harney, but even far from Wharton's familiar urban ground, she will fall victim to the sexual and social politics that enslave society everywhere. Considered by some a companion novel to Wharton's Ethan Frome, this is an astonishing tale of doomed romance from a master storytelling at the height of her ability. American author EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937) was born into a wealthy New York family and made a career of criticizing and satirizing her own high society in fiction. Her best-known novels include The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), and The Age of Innocence (1920), which won the Pulitzer Prize. ALSO FROM COSIMO: Wharton's The Descent of Man and Other Stories, and Madame De Treymes

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225

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1596058889

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9781596058880

The Descent Of Man And Other Stories

By: EDITH WHARTON

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The Descent Of Man And Other Stories

By: EDITH WHARTON

The collection of short stories "The Descent of Man and Other Stories" was authored by Edith Wharton, a well-known American writer recognized for her examination of marriage, love, and social class in the early 20th century. This 1904 anthology provides an engrossing look into the intricacies of interpersonal interactions and the difficulties people encounter in managing society's expectations. The book is divided into seven stories, each of which offers a distinctive viewpoint on the complexities of human nature. The title narrative, "The Descent of Man," which centres on the life of Halston Merrick, a young man trying to find his place in society, is one of the most notable tales. Wharton addresses issues of identity, self-discovery, and the constraints imposed by social conventions throughout Merrick's journey. Wharton's astute study of human behavior is evident throughout the entire collection. She expertly conveys the subtleties of social interactions and the complexity of human emotions, and her characters are well-developed. Wharton provides readers with a thought-provoking examination of love, marriage, and the difficulties people encounter in negotiating society's expectations through her exquisite prose and perceptive storytelling.

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176

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936115916X

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9789361159169

Essential Novelists - Edith Wharton

Anxieties of the Upper Class

By: August Nemo,Edith Wharton

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Essential Novelists - Edith Wharton

Anxieties of the Upper Class

By: August Nemo,Edith Wharton

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Edith Wharton which are The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome . Edith Wharton is best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born. Novels selected for this book: - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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504

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Tacet Books

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8577771520

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9788577771523

Edith Wharton - Summer

By: Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton - Summer

By: Edith Wharton

Published in 1917, Summer is a story of love, romance and sensuality. It follows the life of a young American female from New England named Charity Royall who was born in poverty. Charity is loved by her guardian Lawyer Royall who expresses his wish to marry her. He first finds her a decent job as the town's librarian despite her lack of qualifications. However, Charity falls in love with another young man named Lucius Harney that she meets one day in the library. With Lucius, eighteen-year-old Charity gradually discovers sensual love for the first time in her life. Other developments happen in the story as Charity falls pregnant and yet discovers that her lover is secretly engaged to another young woman from a higher social rank. Her depression and desperation push her to decide to become a prostitute like her mother when she is rescued from this tragic destiny by Lawyer Royall who marries her and protects her. Edith Wharton's Summer is today considered as one of the earliest novels that deal with innocent young girls discovering the sweet, albeit thorny, world of love and sensual romance.

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1780006519

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9781780006512

Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

From first to last, poetry was part of Edith Wharton's writing life. Whilerarely (after early youth) her primary focus, it always served her as a medium for recording the most vivid impressions and emotions, an intimate journal of longings and regrets. "Poetry was important to Wharton," writeseditor Louis Auchincloss, "because it enabled her to express the deeply emotional side of her nature that she kept under such tight control, not only in her life but in the ordered sweep of her fiction." In later years her poetry also engaged with the public passions of wartime, as she found herself involved with the plight of Allied soldiers in France. Her first models were Romantic, but in the course of her life she absorbed the influences of Symbolism and Modernism; and throughout her poetic career she showed a care for form even in her most private utterances, as in the erotic ode "Terminus," never published in her lifetime. This volume collects the bulk of Wharton's significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished.

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145157116X

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9781451571165

The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

Large format paper back for easy reading. A 19th Century story of frustrated love set amidst the contrasting cultures of Old Europe and the New World

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304

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1905432135

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9781905432134

Selected Poems of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton,Irene Goldman-Price

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Selected Poems of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton,Irene Goldman-Price

Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel The Age of Innocence, was also a brilliant poet. This revealing collection of 134 poems brings together a fascinating array of her verse—including fifty poems that have never before been published. The celebrated American novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton, author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence, was also a dedicated, passionate poet. A lover of words, she read, studied, and composed poetry all of her life, publishing her first collection of poems at the age of sixteen. In her memoir, A Backward Glance, Wharton declared herself dazzled by poetry; she called it her “chiefest passion and greatest joy.” The 134 selected poems in this volume include fifty published for the first time. Wharton’s poetry is arranged thematically, offering context as the poems explore new facets of her literary ability and character. These works illuminate a richer, sometimes darker side of Wharton. Her subjects range from the public and political—her first published poem was about a boy who hanged himself in jail—to intimate lyric poems expressing heartbreak, loss, and mortality. She wrote frequently about works of art and historical figures and places, and some of her most striking work explores the origins of creativity itself. These selected poems showcase Wharton’s vivid imagination and her personal experience. Relatively overlooked until now, her poetry and its importance in her life provide an enlightening lens through which to view one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501182846

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9781501182846

Selected Novels of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

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Selected Novels of Edith Wharton

By: Edith Wharton

This special ebook edition includes four of Edith Wharton's best-known novels: The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and Madame de Treymes.

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Joe Books Ltd

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1927854849

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9781927854846

The Descent of Man

By: Edith Wharton

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The Descent of Man

By: Edith Wharton

The Descent of Man is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt. Wharton was born to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City. She had two brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to her father's family. She was also related to the Rensselaer family, the most prestigious of the old patroon families. She had a lifelong friendship with her Rhinelander niece, landscape architect Beatrix Farrand of Reef Point in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 1885, at 23, she married Edward (Teddy) Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years older. From a well-established Philadelphia family, he was a sportsman and gentleman of the same social class and shared her love of travel. From the late 1880s until 1902, he suffered acute depression, and the couple ceased their extensive travel. At that time his depression manifested as a more serious disorder, after which they lived almost exclusively at The Mount, their estate designed by Edith Wharton. In 1908 her husband's mental state was determined to be incurable. She divorced him in 1913. Around the same time, Edith was overcome with the harsh criticisms leveled by the naturalist writers. Later in 1908 she began an affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist for The Times, in whom she found an intellectual partner. In addition to novels, Wharton wrote at least 85 short stories. She was also a garden designer, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several design books, including her first published work, The Decoration of Houses of 1897, co-authored by Ogden Codman. Another is the generously illustrated Italian Villas and Their Gardens of 1904.

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1496123166

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9781496123169

Edith Wharton The Dover Reader

By: Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton The Dover Reader

By: Edith Wharton

Well-rounded introduction features the complete text of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence, plus Ethan Frome, excerpts from The Decoration of Houses, four short stories, and several poems.

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514

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Courier Corporation

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0486800741

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9780486800745

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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton

The Portable Edith Wharton

The Portable Edith Wharton

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The Descent Of Man And Other Stories

The Descent Of Man And Other Stories

Essential Novelists - Edith Wharton

Essential Novelists - Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton - Summer

Edith Wharton - Summer

Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

Selected Poems of Edith Wharton

Selected Poems of Edith Wharton

Selected Novels of Edith Wharton

Selected Novels of Edith Wharton

The Descent of Man

The Descent of Man

Edith Wharton The Dover Reader

Edith Wharton The Dover Reader

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