Edith Wharton: Complete Works

By Edith Wharton

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's 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wisehouse Classics
• Release date: Jul 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9789176377819

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.