Edith Wharton
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Standard Name: Wharton, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Newbold Jones
Married Name: Edith Newbold Wharton
, early twentieth-century novelist of American nationality, upper-middle-class status and subject-matter, and European cultural interests, has suffered in critical estimation by being ranked second to her friend and contemporary
. Writing through the modernist period, she remained traditional in her techniques. Most of her stories revolve around the dilemmas faced by women in a society which offers them little while depending on their compliance. She produced non-fictional prose, short fiction, travel writing, autobiography, and letters as well as the novels for which she is best known. She is currently enjoying a boom in reputation.
Timeline
Texts
Wharton, Edith. A Backward Glance. D. Appleton-Century, 1934.
Wharton, Edith. A Son at the Front. D. Appleton, 1923.
Wharton, Edith. Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse. Scribner, 1909.
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1911.
Wharton, Edith. Fighting France. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1915.
Wharton, Edith. Madame de Treymes. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1907.
Wharton, Edith. Old New York. D. Appleton, 1924.
Wharton, Edith. Tales of Men and Ghosts. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1910.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. D. Appleton, 1920.
Wharton, Edith. The Buccaneers. Editor Lapsley, Gaillard, D. Appleton-Century, 1938.
Wharton, Edith. The Cruise of the Vanadis. Editor Lesage, Claudine, Sterne, 1992.
Wharton, Edith. The Custom of the Country. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1913.
Wharton, Edith, and Ogden Codman. The Decoration of Houses. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1897.
Wharton, Edith. The Gods Arrive. D. Appleton, 1932.
Wharton, Edith. The Greater Inclination. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1899.
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
Wharton, Edith. The Reef. D. Appleton, 1912.
Wharton, Edith. The Writing of Fiction. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1925.
Wharton, Edith. Verses. C. E. Hammett, Jr, 1878.
Wharton, Edith. Xingu and Other Stories. Macmillan and Co., 1916.