Selected Works of Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

Despite not publishing her first novel until she was forty, Wharton became an extraordinarily productive writer. In addition to her fifteen novels, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, she published poetry, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class, late-nineteenth-century society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics, in such works as The House of Mirth.

In this ebook you will find FOURTEEN of her most famous books:

:. THE GREATER INCLINATION (1899)
:. THE TOUCHSTONE (1900)
:. THE DESCENT OF MAN AND OTHER STORIES (1904)
:. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (1905)
:. THE FRUIT OF THE TREE (1907)
:. TALES OF MEN AND GHOSTS (1910)
:. THE REEF (1912)
:. THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY (1913)
:. KERFOL (1916)
:. XINGU (1916)
:. THE TRIUMPH OF NIGHT (1916)
:. BUNNER SISTERS (1916)
:. SUMMER (1917)
:. THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON (1922)

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