Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters
$48.86
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2008
Summary
Beautifully packaged collection of three important stories by Edith Wharton, one of America’s greatest writers.
These brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton’s characters.
- Ethan Frome is one of Wharton’s most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593128 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593125 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2008 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 131mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City on January 24, 1862. She married Teddy Wharton, who was 12 years her senior. The couple enjoyed a life of relative ease, with residences in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
Wharton published novels between 1900 and 1938. Her works gained significant popularity, allowing her to live comfortably on her earnings.
She divorced Teddy Wharton in 1912 and never remarried. Afterward, she traveled extensively by motorcar and dedicated herself to assisting refugees in Paris during World War I. She returned to the United States only once more in her lifetime to accept the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Age of Innocence.
Wharton hosted salons that attracted prominent intellectuals of her era, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
She resided in two homes in France: Pavillon Colombe, north of Paris, and Ste. Claire in Hyères. Her Paris flat was located at 53 Rue de Varenne. She retired to Pavillon Colombe, continuing her writing until a stroke ended her life in August 1937. She is interred in the American Cemetery at Versailles. Her gravestone bears the inscription: “O Crux Ave Spes Unica,” meaning “Hail, o cross, the one hope.”
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