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Edith Wharton The Dover Reader

Edith Wharton

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Note
  • Contents
  • Nonfiction
  • The Decoration of Houses (1897)
  • Introduction
  • The Historical Tradition
  • Rooms in General
  • Doors
  • The Drawing-Room, Boudoir, and Morning-Room
  • Bric-à-Brac
  • Short Stories
  • Xingu (1911)
  • The Other Two (1904)
  • The Lady’s Maid’s Bell (1902)
  • The Choice (1908)
  • Poetry
  • The Last Giustiniani (1889)
  • Life (1908)
  • With the Tide (1919)
  • An Autumn Sunset (1894)
  • The Sonnet (1891)
  • A Meeting (1909)
  • The Mortal Lease (1909)
  • Euryalus (1889)
  • Vesalius in Zante (1908)
  • Novels
  • Ethan Frome (1911)
  • The Age of Innocence (1920)
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486800745
  • ISBN-13 9780486800745
  • Author Edith Wharton
  • Category Fiction
  • Subject Classics

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"Fantastic collection for Wharton fans and new readers. I think this is perfect for students." — Georgetown University Born into wealth and aristocracy, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was a member as well as an observer of fashionable New York society. Aspirations to authorship consigned her to outsider status among the idle rich; nevertheless, she drew upon her privileged social position to create witty and psychologically insightful novels and short stories about people from all walks of life. This well-rounded introduction to Wharton's works features the complete text of her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence, as well as her haunting novella, Ethan Frome. Several excerpts from her highly influential guide to interior design, The Decoration of Houses, offer samples of Wharton's nonfiction style. The collection also includes four short stories as well as several poems.