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Language: English
Published by University Of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1977
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Printing. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First printing thus, near fine maroon cloth hardcover (no dust jacket - slipcased edition) is tight and clean while showing just a hint of wear, in a near fine splicase that shows a light bit of shelf wear. LOA notes laid in. Still a pleasing copy of this collection that makes up t…he 121st installment in the Library of America line.
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories, 1911-1937
Wharton, Edith; Maureen Howard (editor) wrote the Chronology & Notes & selected the Texts for this volume.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: CLASSIC: NEW First Printing LOA hardcover (2001) First Printing, NEW maroon silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles & LOA-colophon handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-bloc…k exterior, IMPECCABLE white-on-maroon LOA-logo-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & maroon-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ a maroon silk page-marking ribbon bound-in from the top, PRISTINE interior printed in remarkably clear 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free Ecusta Nyallite paper * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.06", 0.55 kg, 848 pp * CONTENTS: Collected Stories, 1911-1937 (1); Chronology (823), Note on the Texts (842), Notes (846) * ABOUT THE BOOK: Edith Wharton's full & glamorous life bridged two continents & two centuries. Born into an upper-class New York family, she broke w/ convention & became a professional writer, earning an enduring place as the grande dame of American letters. This collection presents the finest of Wharton's achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than 80 stories she published over the course of her career. Here, in settings familiar & exotic, are all of Wharton's characteristic qualities & themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes; her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class & its distinctions; her keen-eyed observation of the minutiae of character; her unflinching recognition of the power of conventional morality & the limits of passion, tempered by her delightful sense of play. Here, in the 2nd of 2 volumes, Wharton's humor is abundantly evident in sly & subtle stories like "Xingu" (in which a ladies' reading group is led to express its enthusiasm for an occult philosophy) & "Charm Incorporated" (about a mild-mannered Wall Street executive overwhelmed by his emigré wife's needy but wonderful relatives). As always, Wharton's is a provocative voice on the subject of sexuality & women's roles. In "The Day of the Funeral", "Joy in the House" & "Atrophy", love & desire confront the demands of polite society; in "Roman Fever", a formal tour de force, 2 middle-aged women on holiday w/ their modern daughters revisit the fierce competitiveness of their own youth. Of particular interest are Wharton's stories of the uncanny & the supernatural, like the grisly "A Bottle of Perrier", set in the North African desert, & the chilling "All Souls", written just before her death. An unacknowledged master of American horror fiction, Wharton's lucid prose makes all the more powerful her exploration of the irrational forces underlying ordinary life. Also included in this edition are a chronology of Wharton's life & explanatory notes * ABOUT The LIBARY of AMERICA: The LIBRARY of AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL at our quoted below cost rates.
