Edith Newbold Jones was born into such wealth and privilege that her family inspired the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses." The youngest of three children, Edith spent her early years touring Europe with her parents and, upon the family's return to the United States, enjoyed a privileged childhood in New York and Newport, Rhode Island. Edith's creativity and talent soon became obvious: By the age of eighteen she had written a novella, (as well as witty reviews of it) and published poetry in the Atlantic Monthly. After a failed engagement, Edith married a wealthy sportsman, Edward Wharton. Despite similar backgrounds and a shared taste for travel, the marriage was not a success. Many of Wharton's novels chronicle unhappy marriages, in which the demands of love and vocation often conflict with the expectations of society. Wharton's first major novel, The House of Mirth, published in 1905, enjoyed considerable literary success. Ethan Frome appeared six years later, solidifying Wharton's reputation as an important novelist. Often in the company of her close friend, Henry James, Wharton mingled with some of the most famous writers and artists of the day, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Gide, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, and Jack London. In 1913 Edith divorced Edward. She lived mostly in France for the remainder of her life. When World War I broke out, she organized hostels for refugees, worked as a fund-raiser, and wrote for American publications from battlefield frontlines. She was awarded the French Legion of Honor for her courage and distinguished work. The Age of Innocence, a novel about New York in the 1870s, earned Wharton the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921 — the first time the award had been bestowed upon a woman. Wharton traveled throughout Europe to encourage young authors. She also continued to write, lying in her bed every morning, as she had always done, dropping each newly penned page on the floor to be collected and arranged when she was finished. Wharton suffered a stroke and died on August 11, 1937. She is buried in the American Cemetery in Versailles, France.
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Series
Books
Madame de Treymes and Others
1916
Fighting France. from Dunkerque to Belport
1915
Three Novels of New York
The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence
1910
The Uncanny Reader
Stories from the Shadows
2015
World War I Poetry
2017
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
The Long Run
2004
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
1934
The Decoration Of Houses
1887
The Custom of the Country
1913
Xingu
1916
Italian Backgrounds
1905
Afterward
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1910
French Ways and Their Meaning
1919
The Edith Wharton Collection
2012
Five Novels
The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer, and The Age of Innocence
1920
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
2004
Sanctuary
1922
The Lady's Maid's Bell
1902
Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas
2007
Cuentos inquietantes
2015
Madame De Treymes and Three Novellas
1916
Ethan Frome
1911
Ethan Frome and Other Stories
1996
The Pelican
Followed by Master Eustache
2017
Roman Fever and Other Stories
1934
Contos de Assombro
2018
Autres Temps
2008
The Short Stories
2023
In Morocco
1920
Alguien llama a la ventana
Antología del cuento gótico
2016
Kamal-i zindagani
1893
Ethan Frome and other stories
2018
Tales from the Dead of Night
Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories
2013
Lettres Wharton
1988
Works of Edith Wharton
1978
The Triumph of Night
1927
The Descent of Man
2013
Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction
1911
Góticas y tenebrosas
Mujeres que cuentan historias oscuras
2021
Mrs. Manstey's View
1893
Manhattan Noir 2
The Classics
2008
The Moving Finger
2009
The Age of Innocence
1920
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
1934
The Pretext
1908
False Dawn
1924
The Greater Inclination
1899
A Bottle of Perrier
1926
Summer
1917
The Spark
1924
Edith Wharton
Selected Poems:
2005
Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters
1917
Four Classic Horror Stories
2020
Collected Stories, 1911-1937
1937
Selected Poems of Edith Wharton
2019
La solterona
1922
Fast and loose
2006
Crucial Instances
1901
The Reckoning And Other Stories
1934
The Fruit of the Tree
1907
Stories of Edith Wharton
2008
The Reef
1912
Xingu
And Other Stories
1916
The Mother's Recompense
1925
Edith Wharton
14 Great Novels
2014
Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
2012
The Demanding Dead
More Stories of Terror and the Supernatural
1937
The Moons At Your Door
2015
American Gothic Tales
1996
Here and Beyond
1926
Tales of Men and Ghosts
1910
The Portable Edith Wharton
2003
The Cruise of The Vanadis
1910
The Reckoning
2000
A Backward Glance
1934
The Marne
1918
American Midnight
Tales of the Dark
2019
Edith Wharton Abroad
Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920
1920
Four Novels
1920
Madame de Treymes
1907
Expiation
2013
Bunner Sisters
1916
The Collected Short Stories of Edith Wharton
2011
The Children
1928
Old New York
1924
A Journey
2014
A Son at the Front
1923
The Angel at the Grave
2014
The Glimpses of the Moon
1922
The Best Short Stories of Edith Wharton
1958
El vicio de la lectura
1903
Short Stories
1911
Twilight Sleep
1927
Roman Fever
1934
The Touchstone
1900
Bewitched
1927
The Collected Stories
1937
Hudson River Bracketed
1929
The Writing of Fiction
1925
The Muse's Tragedy and Other Stories
1914
The Ghost-Feeler
Stories of Terror and the Supernatural
1935
A Motor-Flight Through France
1908
The Gods Arrive
1932
Classic Horror Stories
2015
The Other Two
1904
Ethan Frome and Summer
1911
Chilling Horror Short Stories
2015
The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence
1920
Collected Stories, 1891-1910
1910
Pomegranate Seed
1931
Antología de relatos góticos
2019
Kerfol
1916
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
The Valley of Decision
1902
The Early Short Fiction
2006
The Duchess at Prayer
2014
The House of Mirth
1905
The Descent of Man, and Other Stories
1903
New Year's Day
1924
Italian Villas And Their Gardens
1904
All Souls'
2016
The Buccaneers
1938
