Edith Wharton: Novellas & Other Writings (LOA #47)
Madame de Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A Backward Glance / "Life and I"
$85.30
- Hardcover
1137 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1990
Summary
Collected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton- novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography,A Backward Glance. Together they represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished and admired of American writers.Madame de Treymes(1907) is set in fashionable Paris society, where a once free-spirited American woman is trying to extricate herself, with the help of a fellow countryman, from her marriage to an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940450530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940450534 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Cynthia Griffin Wolff |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1137 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1990 |
| Weight: | 708g |
| Dimensions: | 206mm x 132mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Library of America Edith Wharton Edition |
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Critics Review
“The Library of America has now followed its initial Wharton collection, containing the major novels, with a second one devoted to her shorter fiction and autobiographical writings… . Edith Wharton’s triumph as an artist is finally that her personal quest for identity became the basis for a larger vision. Cynthia Griffin Wolff traces the writer’s evolution from emotionally disenfranchised child to completely realized novelist.” —New York Newsday
About The Author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton(1862-1937) is a central figure in American literature, a masterful chronicler of her age and prolific writer in many modes. Her major works includeThe House of Mirth(1905),Ethan Frome(1911),The Custom of the Country(1913) andThe Age of Innocence(1920), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize, the first awarded to a woman.Cynthia Griffin Wolff, volume editor, is professor of Literature emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author ofA Feast of Words- The Triumph of Edith Wharton.
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