Edith Wharton Collected Works

EDITH WHARTON The Authoritative Collected Works (Special Apple iBook Edition)

All Major works of Edith Wharton including

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, ETHAN FROME, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction)


TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE TOUCHSTONE
THE VALLEY OF DECISION
SANCTUARY
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
MADAME DE TREYMES
FRUIT OF THE TREE
ETHAN FROME
THE REEF
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
BUNNER SISTERS
SUMMER
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON
FALSE DAWN
THE OLD MAID
THE SPARK
NEW YEAR’S DAY
THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE
TWILIGHT SLEEP
THE CHILDREN
HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED
THE GODS ARRIVE
CRUCIAL INSTANCES
THE DUCHESS AT PRAYER
THE ANGEL AT THE GRAVE
THE RECOVERY
“COPY” A DIALOGUE
THE REMBRANDT
THE MOVING FINGER
THE CONFESSIONAL
THE DESCENT OF MAN AND OTHER STORIES
THE DESCENT OF MAN
THE OTHER TWO
EXPIATION
THE LADY’S MAID’S BELL
THE MISSION OF JANE
THE RECKONING
THE LETTER
THE DILETTANTE
THE QUICKSAND
A VENETIAN NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT
THE HERMIT AND THE WILD WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES
THE HERMIT AND THE WILD WOMAN
THE LAST ASSET
IN TRUST
THE PRETEXT
THE VERDICT
THE POT-BOILER
THE BEST MAN
TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS
THE BOLTED DOOR
HIS FATHER’S SON
THE DAUNT DIANA
THE DEBT
FULL CIRCLE
THE LEGEND
THE EYES
THE BLOND BEAST
AFTERWARD
THE LETTERS
XINGU
THE CHOICE
COMING HOME
THE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT
KERFOL
AUTRES TEMPS ...
THE LONG RUN
HERE AND BEYOND
MISS MARY PASK
THE YOUNG GENTLEMEN
BEWITCHED
THE SEED OF THE FAITH
THE TEMPERATE ZONE
VELVET EAR-PADS
CERTAIN PEOPLE
ATROPHY
A BOTTLE OF PERRIER
AFTER HOLBEIN
DIEU D’AMOUR
THE REFUGEES
MR. JONES
A BACKWARD GLANCE



EDITH WHARTON

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau and André Gide were all guests of hers at one time or another. Theodore Roosevelt, Bernard Berenson, and Kenneth Clark were valued friends as well. But her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald is described by the editors of her letters as "one of the better known failed encounters in the American literary annals." She spoke fluent French (as well as several other languages), and many of her books were published in both French and English.

Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.

In addition to writing several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories.