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Edith Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. Among her other well known works are The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome. Wharton's writings often dealt with themes such as social and individual fulfillment, repressed sexuality, and the manners of old families and the new elite. A key recurring theme in Wharton's writing is the relationship between the house as a physical space and its relationship to its inhabitant's characteristics and emotions. Contents The Novels Fast and Loose The Valley of Decision Sanctuary The House of Mirth The Fruit of the Tree Ethan Frome The Reef The Custom of the Country Summer The Age of Innocence The Glimpses of the Moon A Son at the Front The Mother’s Recompense Twilight Sleep The Children Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive The Buccaneers The Novellas The Touchstone Madame de Treymes The Marne Old New York The Short Story Collections The Greater Inclination Crucial Instances The Descent of Man and Other Stories The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories Tales of Men and Ghosts Uncollected Early Short Stories Xingu and Other Stories Here and Beyond Certain People Human Nature The World Over Ghosts The Short Stories List of Stories in Chronological Order List of Stories in Alphabetical Order The Play The Joy of Living The Poetry Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses Uncollected Poetry The Non-Fiction The Decoration of Houses Italian Villas and Their Gardens Italian Backgrounds A Motor-Flight Through France France, from Dunkerque to Belfort French Ways and Their Meaning In Morocco The Writing of Fiction The Autobiography A Backward Glance

This new volume in the Author Chronology series illuminates the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context. Edith Wharton was a prolific as well as a many-sided writer, who created not only novels, novellas, short stories, and poems, but also a notable series of travel writings, and did translations, pieces for the theatre, and essays on other writers and their works, as well as on the creation and criticism of fiction.This account of Wharton's personal and professional life provides an invaluable insight into an important American woman writer of the Twentieth Century.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton created a diverse body of works, featuring innovative novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction, demonstrating her inimitable wit and psychological insight. This comprehensive eBook offers readers the unique opportunity of exploring Edith Wharton’s complete works for the first time in publishing history. (Version 5) Features: * illustrated with many images relating to Wharton’s life and works * annotated with concise introductions to the novels, novellas and other works * ALL 18 novels, each with contents tables * INCLUDES the rare first novel FAST AND LOOSE, which Wharton wrote aged 14 – first time in digital print * EVEN contains the Wharton’s unfinished novel THE BUCCANEERS, available nowhere else * images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * ALL 12 short story collections, with RARE uncollected tales available nowhere else * separate chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories – find that special story easily! * the war novella THE MARNE, first time in digital print * EVEN includes Wharton’s rare non-fiction texts, including THE DECORATION OF HOUSES, her groundbreaking manual on interior design – fully illustrated * ALSO includes Wharton’s European and African travel books, with numerous original illustrations * includes Wharton’s play THE JOY OF LIVING, translated from German * features the complete poetry with rare poems available for the first time in digital print * also includes Wharton autobiography A BACKWARD GLANCE – explore her amazing literary life * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Wharton’s immense oeuvre Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Fast And Loose The Valley Of Decision Sanctuary The House of Mirth The fruit of THE TREE Ethan Frome The Reef The custom of the country Summer The age of innocence The glimpses of the moon A son at the front The mother’s recompense Twilight sleep The Children Hudson River Bracketed The Gods Arrive The Buccaneers The Novellas The Touchstone Madame de treymes The marne Old new york False dawn The old maid The spark New year’s day The Short Story Collections The Greater Inclination Crucial Instances The descent of man and other stories The hermit and the wild woman and stories Tales of men and ghosts Uncollected early short stories Xingu and other stories Here and beyond Certain people Human nature The world over Ghosts The Short Stories List of stories in chronological order List of stories in alphabetical order The Play The Joy Of Living The Poetry Artemis to Actaeon and other verses Uncollected poetry Alphabetical list of poems The Non-Fiction THE DECORATION OF HOUSES Italian villas and their gardens Italian Backgrounds A Motor-Flight Through France France, From Dunkerque To Belfort French ways and their meaning In Morocco The Writing Of Fiction The Biography A Backward Glance Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Uniformly excellent” stories about our relationships with each other and with the treacherous natural world (Publishers Weekly). In the title story, a man and woman travel across an eerily frozen lake—under the ice. “The Distance” casts a skeptical eye on Thomas Jefferson through the lens of a Montana man’s visit to Monticello. “Eating” begins with an owl being sucked into a canoe and ends with a man eating a town out of house and home, and “The Cave” is a stunning story of a man and woman lost in an abandoned mine. Other stories include “The Fireman,” “Swans,” “The Prisoners,” “Presidents’ Day,” “Real Town,” and “Two Deer.” Each is remarkable in its own way, sure to please both new readers and avid fans of Rick Bass’s passionate, unmistakable voice. “Bass focuses a naturalist’s eye not only on the frozen lakes and interplay of predator and prey often found in his work but also on the ebb and flow of human emotions and relationships . . . Thought-provoking and entertaining, these stories move along quickly but continue to resonate long after the reader is done; several have been anthologized in award collections.” —Library Journal “Beautiful in their magical imagery, dramatic in their situations, and exquisitely poignant in their insights, these stories of awe and loss are quite astonishing in their mythic use of place and the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.” —Booklist “Bass puts his talent as a nature writer to terrific use.” —The New York Times Book Review “Bass’s language glistens with the beauty of the landscapes he evokes.” —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review