The Complete Works of Edith Wharton. Illustrated

The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and others

By Edith Wharton

2014

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Edith 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 in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence.Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the new elite.A key recurring theme in Wharton's writing is the relationship between the house as a physical space and its relationship to its inhabitant's characteristics and The NovelsFast and LooseThe Valley of DecisionSanctuaryThe House of MirthThe Fruit of the TreeEthan FromeThe ReefThe Custom of the CountrySummerThe Age of InnocenceThe Glimpses of the MoonA Son at the FrontThe Mother's RecompenseTwilight SleepThe ChildrenHudson River BracketedThe Gods ArriveThe Buccaneers The NovellasThe TouchstoneMadame de TreymesThe MarneOld New York The Short Story CollectionsThe Greater InclinationCrucial InstancesThe Descent of Man and Other StoriesThe Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other StoriesTales of Men and GhostsUncollected Early Short StoriesXingu and Other StoriesHere and BeyondCertain PeopleHuman NatureThe World OverGhosts The Short StoriesList of Stories in Chronological OrderList of Stories in Alphabetical Order The PlayThe Joy of Living The PoetryArtemis to Actaeon and Other VersesUncollected Poetry The Non-FictionThe Decoration of HousesItalian Villas and Their GardensItalian BackgroundsA Motor-Flight Through FranceFrance, from Dunkerque to BelfortFrench Ways and Their MeaningIn MoroccoThe Writing of Fiction The AutobiographyA Backward Glance

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Edith Wharton

Author · 156 books

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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