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Edith Wharton's Books
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Twilight SleepOut 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...Read More
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The House of MirthEdith Wharton's incisive portrait of New York's aristocracy and Lily Bart’s ill-fated attempt to rise to the heights of society through marriage.Read More
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The Ghost Stories of Edith WhartonOne 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...Read More
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Old New YorkThe four novellas collected here, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capture New York of the 1840s, '50s, '60s,...Read More
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Backward GlanceA Backward Glance is Edith Wharton's vivid account of both her public and her private life. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated...Read More
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The Age of InnocenceThe Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of unfulfilled romance set against the backdrop of old New York. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: ...Read More
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Ethan FromeENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers...Read More -
The Writing of FictionA 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...Read More
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Custom of the CountryFirst 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...Read More
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WA Today, May 18, 2012
...in 1985 and threw off her journalistic shackles. ''To me, journalism is always the surface. I think of Edith Wharton, who said art should show you the knots in the back of the tapestry. For me, journalism is the front of the tapestry. I know that the...
WA Today, May 18, 2012
...and threw off her journalistic shackles. ''To me, journalism is always the surface,'' she says. ''I think of Edith Wharton, who said art should show you the knots in the back of the tapestry. For me, journalism is the front of the tapestry. ''I know that...
Huffington Post, May 15, 2012
...by Patrick DeWitt *** 1/2 20. The 500 by Matthew Quirk ** 21. The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton **** 22. The Alienist by Caleb Carr ***\ 23. Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi ** 24. Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household *** 25. The Perks Of Being...
Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2012
...Kansas for New York. (June) In her debut novel, British journalist Francesca Segal offers an updated version of Edith Wharton’s “Age of Innocence,” set in a tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. (June) Robert Goolrick’s 2009 novel “A Reliable...
Time, May 13, 2012
...s Gentleman Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady topped the best-seller lists, charming readers and critics alike; Edith Wharton hailed it as "the great American novel." (Possibly that great American novelist was kidding.) Within...
Ultimate Fort Bend, May 11, 2012
...every month in the conference room. On May 15 the club will discuss The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Finally, the Murder and Mayhem Book Club will meet at 11 a.m. on the third Saturday of every month in the conference room. On May 19 the club...
Playbill, March 2, 2012
...New Group announced that Claire van der Boom whose name sounds like a minor comic character in an Edith Wharton novel will replace Lily Rabe in the world premiere of An Early History of Fire, a new work by Tony winner Papa Rabe, Off-Broadway this spring....
BusinessWeek, March 1, 2012
...suffer when you get the flu.” Comfortable New Yorkers assessing their discomforts is at least as old as Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel The House of Mirth, whose heroine, Lily Bart, said “the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of...
Daily Beast, March 1, 2012
...gift of accessibility with serious intention? Why make this an essay on the difficulty of finding sympathy for Edith Wharton, and instead of exploring empathy for a fellow author?...
South Coast Today, March 1, 2012
...is based on Jane Austen's novels (though the title is also the title of a novel by Edith Wharton). As Wheater explains, "In (Austen's) novels people met through social dancing ... It's telling a story through physical language, as opposed to mime and...
South Coast Today, March 1, 2012
...is based on Jane Austen's novels (though the title is also the title of a novel by Edith Wharton). As Wheater explains, "In (Austen's) novels people met through social dancing ... It's telling a story through physical language, as opposed to mime and...
New York Times, February 29, 2012
...delusional to start a society magazine at a moment when many consider both New York society in the Edith Wharton sense and magazines to be a fading concept. But as torrents of new money flow through the city, swamping the old social order, Mr. Davis, the...
Cinema Blend, February 28, 2012
...Terence Davies, the English writer-director who memorably adapted Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth into a heralded feature film, has just cemented plans to do the same for the work of a more contemporary American author. Variety reports...
