A selection of 8 short
The Muse's Tragedy
A Journey
The Pelican
Souls Belated
A Coward
The Twilight of the Gods
A Cup of Cold Water
The Portrait
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937), American novelist and short-story writer, was born in New York City. Strongly influenced by Henry James, she is best known for her subtle and su-perbly crafted studies of the tragedies and ironies in the lives of members of middle-class and artistocratic New York soci-ety in the the nineteenth century. She was educated in New York and Europe, and married Edward Wharton, a Boston banker, in 1885. When her husband became mentally ill, she cared for him until 1913, when she settled permanently in France and divorced him. Among her best and most characteristic works are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she received a Pultizer prize.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Very good+ and clean but has a faint number written on the front cover and a faint publisher stamp on the title page. ; 12mo; 254 pages. Seller Inventory # 14316