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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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Cleveland Live, June 7, 2013
...their cuisine." The Age of Desire Jennie Fields Penguin, 352 pp., $16 In this novel about author Edith Wharton (the title is a twist on Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"), Jennie Fields uses Wharton's letters and diary entries to imagine the...
Examiner.com, June 6, 2013
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Huffington Post, June 6, 2013
...how the now-affluent Village used to be a more bohemian place where a down-and-out artist could live. Several Edith Wharton novels, including The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth, are set in the ritzier environs of Manhattan. But the latter book...
Nashville Scene, June 6, 2013
...Penguin, 384 pages, $16 Novelist Edith Wharton knew the depths and complexities of the human soul. More than a hundred years later, the inexorable fall of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth still distresses and...
Marie Claire UK, June 5, 2013
...to improve child literacy and 67% say that she has turned non-readers into readers. J.K. Rowling 5. Edith Wharton Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature. Her novel, The Age of Innocence, won the prestigious honour in...
Huffington Post, June 3, 2013
...pick up your pen and paper, typewriter, computer and start writing! Loading Slideshow F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Edith Wharton George Orwell Dorothy Parker Richard Wright G.K. Chesterton John Steinbeck Mark Twain Charles Dickens...
Good Housekeeping UK, June 3, 2013
...it even more the second time round. 14) Who are your favourite dead writers? There are so many! ... Edith Wharton, Henry James, Rosamond Lehmann, Jean Rhys, Daphne du Maurier, Beryl Bainbridge, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Willa...
Midland Daily News, May 31, 2013
...poetry and drama that students will read. For example, the Common Core ignores the novels of Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” It also delays the point at which Bay State students reach Algebra I — the gateway to...
World News Network, May 31, 2013
...Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, was raised in Boston. Ethan Frome, written in 1911 by Edith Wharton, is set in turn-of-the-century New England, in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. Like much literature of the region, it plays...
Asheville Citizen-Times, May 31, 2013
...Send it to JBuchanan@CITIZEN-TIMES.com Reader grades A for a rose cultivated by Conard-Pyle/Star Roses that won the Edith Wharton Award in the Biltmore International Rose Trials held on May 18 at the Biltmore Estate. An international jury selected the...
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, May 30, 2013
...2010, has been to reduce the amount of classical literature studied by more than half. Goodbye Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Let’s call this one a clever half-truth. Goodbye Mark Twain’s...
Slate Magazine, May 29, 2013
...s interview with Messud in New York. Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country...
Slate Magazine, May 29, 2013
...s interview with Messud in New York. Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs. Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country...
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, May 28, 2013
...poetry and drama that students will read. For example, the Common Core ignores the novels of Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." It also delays the point at which Bay State students reach Algebra I—the gateway to higher...