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.