Edith Wharton
Author
Series
Library of America volume 47
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1990.
Language
English
Description
The second Edith Wharton volume in The Library of America series contains five tales of Edith Wharton along with her autobiography and a previously unpublished autobiographical fragment.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nan and Jinny St George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of the 1870s, however, only those with old money can achieve the status of the elite, and it is here that the sisters seem doomed to failure. Nan's new governess, Laura Testvalley, herself an outsider, takes pity on their plight and launches them instead on the unsuspecting British aristocracy. Lords, dukes, marquesses and MPs, it seems, not only appreciate...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 312
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Contains three works by Edith Wharton, including "Ethan Frome," the tragic story of a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
These short works display Wharton's talent as a satirist "skilled at dissecting the elements of emotional subtleties, moral ambiguities, and the implications of social constrictions" (Cythina Griffin Wolfe, from the Introduction).