Collected here are 14 novels by Edith Wharton. Included are also links to free audiobook verions of the novels. Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt. Novels included: •The Touchstone, 1900 •The Valley of Decision, 1902 •Sanctuary, 1903 •The House of Mirth, 1905 •Madame de Treymes, 1907 •The Fruit of the Tree, 1907 •Ethan Frome, 1911 •The Reef, 1912 •The Custom of the Country, 1913 •Bunner Sisters, 1916 •Summer, 1917 •The Marne, 1918 •The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner) •The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922 Free audiobooks available for: •The Touchstone, 1900 •The Valley of Decision, 1902 - not available as audiobook at this time •Sanctuary, 1903 •The House of Mirth, 1905 •Madame de Treymes, 1907 •The Fruit of the Tree, 1907 •Ethan Frome, 1911 •The Reef, 1912 •The Custom of the Country, 1913 •Bunner Sisters, 1916 •Summer, 1917 - not available as audiobook at this time •The Marne, 1918 •The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner) •The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922 Enjoy!
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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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