Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse

By Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was a short story writer, novelist, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories.
Artemis To Actaeon And Other Verse contains 25 of Wharton's poems and verse split into 3 parts.
This book was originally published in 1909 and is here republished with an introductory biography of the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Norman Press
• Release date: Apr 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781473393714

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.