Here and Beyond

This early work by Edith Wharton was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Here and Beyond' is a collection of short stories that includes 'Miss Mary Pask', 'The Young Gentlemen., 'Bewitched', 'The Seed of Faith', 'The Temperate Zone' and 'Velvet Ear-Pads'. Edith Wharton was born in New York City in 1862. Wharton's first poems were published in Scribner's Magazine. In 1891, the same publication printed the first of her many short stories, titled 'Mrs. Manstey's View'. Over the next four decades, they - along with other well-established American publications such as Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Harper's and Lippincott's - regularly published her work.

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, known for such classics as The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. A member of the New York elite, Wharton drew on her experiences as part of society to critique its inner workings and the conflict between personal desires and societal norms. Wharton died in 1937, leaving behind a rich literary legacy.