Edith Wharton
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English
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Thousands of books on interior design have come and gone since the 1897 publication of this pioneering manual, but The Decoration of Houses remains, thanks to the insightful and inspiring advice of its co-authors. Before she became the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of “The Age of Innocence”, Edith Wharton was a society matron, remodeling a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island. With the able assistance of architect Ogden Codman, Jr., Wharton...
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Barnes & Noble Classics
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English
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Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
4) Old New York
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English
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First published in 1924, Wharton's collection of four short novels reveals the customs and social orders of mid-19th-century New York--Novelist.
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
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English
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The widespread resurgence of interest in Edith Wharton's career over the past twenty years has restored to print most of her fiction, travel books, and writings on architecture, gardening and interior decoration. Yet one significant and substantial portion of her accomplishment has remained largely overlooked: Wharton's numerous exercises in literary criticism. Constituting an unusually little-known body of work by an otherwise preeminent American...
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English
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Set in rural New England, "Ethan Frome" is the story of its title character who marries Zenobia, a nagging hypochondriac of a woman, and finds himself trapped in an unfulfilling life. When Zenobia's young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them, Frome falls in love with her. "Ethan Frome" is the story of forbidden love and its tragic consequences. In "Summer" we have the story of the sexual awakening of a young woman, Charity Royall. Charity,...
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1908.
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English
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Seven short stories from one of the most celebrated authors of the early twentieth century have been updated with an eye toward readability for modern readers. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited versions in appendices.
The Hermit and the Wild Woman: One escapes from war, the other from a convent, only to find themselves together in their solitude.
The...
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Library of America ; 47
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1990]
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English
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The second Edith Wharton volume in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
1968.
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English
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Edith Wharton was an American novelist, poet and short story writer whose works display her mastery over the realistic fiction genre. Although she grew up in a world of refined manners and fashionable people, she was also aware of its superficiality, a theme that frequently appeared in her works. Her stories range widely from powerful social commentary to titillating ghost stories that made Wharton extremely popular beyond her living years. This collection...
15) Short stories
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Dover
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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Described by literary critic Robert Morss Lovett as "a novelist of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of civilization, absorbed in the somewhat mechanical operations of culture, preoccupied with the upper ('and inner') class," Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) also wrote superbly crafted works of short fiction. The seven stories in this excellent collection demonstrate the author's ability to create...
16) Novels
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Library of America ; 30
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Library of America
Pub. Date
[1985]
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English
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C. Scribner's Sons
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1905.
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English
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Wharton's 1901-04 travels yielded nine ruminations about Italy, its culture, and the art of being a perceptive visitor. Includes "An Alpine Posting-Inn," "A Midsummer Week's Dream," "The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps," "What the Hermits Saw," "A Tuscan Shrine," "Sub Umbra Liliorum," "March in Italy," and "Picturesque Milan."
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Library of America ; 121
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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"With this volume (a companion to Collected Stories 1911-1937), The Library of America presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her career. Here, in settings familiar and exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class...
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N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1978]
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English
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In his brilliant introduction to the present volume, the noted writer Gore Vidal makes this comment: "At best, there are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major' and Edith Wharton is one. ... I can only say that I envy anyone reading for the first time The Age of Innocence or New Year's Day." In these works, as in most of Mrs. Wharton's fiction, her subject is America's upper classes as they flourished in the late 19th...
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1916.
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English
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In the title story, a refined ladies' lunch club and its members' pretensions to cultural understanding, come under Edith Wharton's keen satiric eye. Also included in this 1916 collection are "Coming Home," "Autres Temps," "Kerfol," "The Long Run," "The Triumph of Night," "The Choice," and "Bunner Sisters."