Edith Wharton
America's Most Famous Woman Of Letters, And The First Woman To Win The Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton Was Born Into One Of The Last "Leisured Class" Families In New York City, As She Put It, In 1862. Educated Privately, She Was Married To Edward Wharton In 1885, And For The Next Few Years, They Spent Their Time In The High Society Of Newport (Rhode Island), Then Lenox (Massachusetts) And Europe. It Was In Europe That Wharton First Met Henry James, Who Was To Have A Profound And Lasting Influence On Her Life And Work. Wharton's First Published Book Was A Work Of Nonfiction, In Collaboration With
Wharton Edith:
The Custom of the Country
Bantam Classics , 1991
Mass paperback, 480 pages
Wharton Edith, Various :
Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton
Penguin Classics
Editor: Cynthia G. Wolff
Penguin Books , 1990
Quality paperback, 272 pages
Wharton Edith:
Wharton: Novellas and Other Writings
Library Of America (Hardcover)( 47)
Editor: Cynthia G. Wolff
Library Of America , 1990
Hardcover, 1137 pages
Wharton Edith:
Ethan Frome and Other Short Stories
Bantam Classic
Introduction by: Mary Gordon
Bantam Classics , 1987
Mass paperback, 336 pages
Wharton Edith:
Wharton: Novels
Library Of America (Hardcover)
Editor: R. W. Lewis
Library Of America , 1986
Hardcover, 1328 pages
Wharton Edith:
The House of Mirth
Designed by: R. W. Lewis
Bantam Classics , 1984
Mass paperback, 464 pages





