A Venetian Night's Entertainment

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.


In this short story Edith Wharton takes readers to Venice — a gorgeous Italian city which a lot of people from all over the world come to visit year. This is the city of numerous bridges, of the Venetian carnaval and of strange but beautiful masks… Once you see it, you will never forget...