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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence. Born in 1862 into one of New York's older and richer families, she was educated here and abroad. Her works include Ethan Frome, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, The Glimpses of the Moon, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. As a keen observer and chronicler of society, she is without peer. Edith Wharton died in France in 1937.

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Excerpt 1 from Custom of the Country
Apr 29, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from The Writing of Fiction
Apr 05, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from The Mothers Recompense
Apr 05, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Children
Dec 09, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Twilight Sleep
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Glimpses Of The Moon
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Old New York
Oct 23, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The House of Mirth
Oct 14, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Reef
Oct 04, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Backward Glance
Sep 27, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Roman Fever and Other Stories
Sep 12, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Summer
Sep 01, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Ethan Frome
Aug 24, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Age of Innocence
Aug 02, 2012
Twilight Sleep will be released on January 24, 2012 in eBook
Jan 24, 2012

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Utne Reader Online, April 19, 2013
...did check that one of my very, very favorite novels is indeed included (The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton). Usefully, this reference covers a wide range of both classics and popular fiction; you don’t want to read only one or the other, any more...
Guardian.co.uk, April 19, 2013
...its depiction of women and sex, but it draws on a tradition of New York writers going back to Edith Wharton and Dorothy Parker, argues Hadley Freeman It is easy to forget that before the Sex and the City tours, Sex and the City theme nights, Sex and...
New Yorker, April 18, 2013
...George Orwell’s birthplace , in India, is being turned into a memorial to Gandhi. The birthplaces of Edith Wharton and Eugene O’Neill , meanwhile, have been turned into Starbuckses. Granta ’ s once-per-decade Best of Young British Novelists...
Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2013
...is avoiding the rather more ignominious fate of some other authors' homes. As a Flavorwire investigation found out, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Jack London are all now Starbucks franchises...
KUNC 91.5 FM, April 17, 2013
...honor of Mahatma Gandhi, the Agence France-Presse reports. Meanwhile, Flavorwire's Emily Temple discovers that the birthplaces of Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill and Jack London are now ... Starbucks locations. Obviously...
Sabotage Times, April 15, 2013
...up the genre effectively giving a crime novel the same status as say something by Henry James or Edith Wharton. In France this style of novel is known as polar. Movies like “Touchez Pas au Grisbi”, “Riffifi”, “Le Samouraï” “La Balance”...
Chicago Tribune, April 13, 2013
...Richard Russo, Ann Patchett and Barbara Kingsolver. We loved "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich, "Ethan Frome" by Edith Wharton, "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "The Hummingbird's Daughter" by Luis Alberto Urrea, "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa...
Post Star, January 19, 2013
...as “Iroquois Culture,” “The Archaeology and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” “The First Lady of American Letters: Edith Wharton” and “Why Do Jews Earn Like Episcopalians and Vote Like Puerto Ricans?” There are also popular day trips...
Dallas Observer, January 18, 2013
...to Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel) and a work inspired by Jane Austen and Edith Wharton's novels called Age of Innocence. The Joffrey will appear at the tonight and tomorrow. Don't forget your torches and pitchforks, just in case the...
The Lady, January 18, 2013
...in 2012, with a starring role in Zadie Smith’s NW, and also in this debut, which relocates Edith Wharton’s The Age Of Innocence to contemporary NW11. COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD: Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes, Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot Written and...
Jewish Ledger, January 17, 2013
...the 2012 Costa First Novel Award and much critical acclaim from the U.S. and Europe. Inspired by Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” “The Innocents” is set in a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London. In the London-based Jewish...
Jewish News Weekly, January 17, 2013
...Novelist Francesca Segal received the National Jewish Book Award in fiction for “The Innocents”. The novel, modeled on Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” examines the behaviors and beliefs of an Orthodox Jewish community in London. Rabbi...
Broadway World, January 17, 2013
...last year's completely sold-out run, the production returns to The Citadel for a 10-day engagement. Inspired by Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, the novel tells of Lily Bart's tragic descent from the glittering social circle of 1890s New York to...
Guardian.co.uk, January 17, 2013
...well – and notable precisely because he was so good at lamenting the passing of the previous era. Edith Wharton rose to prominence through laying into Victorian suppositions in The House of Mirth. And John Galsworthy's The Man Of Property arrived to...