This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Edith Wharton
- ISBN10: 1406566039
- ISBN13: 9781406566031
Edith Wharton 1862-1937 , born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insiders view of Americas privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her eras literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several influential books, including The Decoration of Houses 1897 , her first published work, and Italian Villas and Their Gardens 1904 . The Age of Innocence 1920 , perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. Her other works include: The Greater Inclination 1899 , The Touchstone 1900 , Sanctuary 1903 , The Descent of Man, and Other Stories 1904 , The House of Mirth 1905 , Madame De Treymes 1907 , The Fruit of the Tree 1907 , The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and Other Stories 1908 , Ethan Frome 1912 , In Morocco 1921 , and The Glimpses of the Moon 1921 .
