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Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 1937), is considered one of the major American novelists and short story writers of the 20th century.

Born to a wealthy New York family, Edith combined her insights into the privileged classes with her natural wit to write novels and short fiction which are notable for their humor and inciciveness.

In 1885, aged 23, she married Teddy Wharton, who was twelve years her senior. They were divorced in 1913 after 30 years of marriage.

Between 1900 and 1938, Wharton created many novels, starting in 1905 with the publication of the House of Mirth.

Wharton was living in France when World War I began, and traveled extensively by motorcar while it was fought. She also worked with refugees in Paris, for which she was awarded the French Légion d’honneur (Legion of Honor).

Her best known work, The Age of Innocence, won her a Pulitzer Prize and was written in 1920.

Wharton was friend and confidant of many gifted intellectuals of her time: Theodore Roosevelt, F Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway were all guests of hers at one time or another. She was also good friends with Henry James.

Wharton continued writing until her death in 1938. She is buried in the American Cemetery at Versailles.

Bibliography:

  • Verses 1878
  • The Decoration of Houses 1897
  • The Greater Inclination 1899
  • The Touchstone 1900
  • Crucial Instances 1901
  • The Valley of Decision 1902
  • Italian Villas and Their Gardens 1904
  • The House of Mirth 1905
  • Italian Backgrounds 1905
  • The Fruit of the Tree 1907
  • Madame de Treymes 1907
  • A Motor-Flight Through France 1908
  • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse 1909
  • Ethan Frome 1912
  • The Reef 1912
  • The Custom of the Country 1913
  • Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort 1915
  • The Book of the Homeless 1916
  • Xingu and Other Stories 1916
  • Summer 1917
  • The Marne 1918
  • French Ways and Their Meaning 1919
  • The Age of Innocence 1920
  • In Morocco 1920
  • The Glimpses of the Moon 1922
  • A Son at the Front 1923
  • Old New York 1924
  • The Mother's Recompense 1925
  • The Writing of Fiction 1925
  • Here and Beyond 1926
  • Twelve Poems 1926
  • Twilight Sleep 1927
  • The Children 1928
  • Hudson River Bracketed 1929
  • The Gods Arrive 1932
  • A Backward Glance 1934
  • The Buccaneers 1938

e-texts of some of Edith Wharton's works:

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