Edith Wharton's Books
There are 16 books
1.
Backward Glance
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publication date: July 15, 1998
A Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New York society in which Wharton spent her youth, and chronicles her...
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2.
Summer
By: Edith Wharton
Introduction by: Marilyn French
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: June 3, 1998
Summer, Edith Wharton wrote to Gaillard Lapsley, "is known to its author and her familars as the Hot Ethan." One of the first American novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, it was a publishing...
3.
The Age of Innocence
(Part of Enriched Classics)
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: March 4, 1998
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York. With vivid power, Wharton evokes a time of gaslit streets, formal dances held in the ballrooms...
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4.
Twilight Sleep
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: December 9, 1997
Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and...
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5.
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: October 10, 1997
One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, "...till I was...
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6.
The Writing of Fiction
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publication date: October 8, 1997
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of...
7.
Children
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: September 2, 1997
A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, Edith Wharton's The Children is a comic, bittersweet novel about the misadventures of a bachelor and a band of precocious children. The seven Wheater children, stepbrothers...
8.
Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publication date: August 1, 1997
First published in 1913 and regarded by many critics as her most substantial novel, The Custom of the Country is Edith Wharton's powerful saga about the beautiful, ruthless Undine Spragg. A woman of extraordinary ambition and...
9.
The House of Mirth
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Classic Edition Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: July 1, 1997
A literary sensation when it was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905, The House of Mirth quickly established Edith Wharton as the most important American woman of letters in the twentieth century. The first American...
10.
Roman Fever and Other Stories
By: Edith Wharton
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: June 13, 1997
A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime. The best of her...
