Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is a central figure in American literature, a masterful chronicler of her age and prolific writer in many modes. Her major works includeThe House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize, the first awarded to a woman.R.W.B. Lewis(1917-2002), volume editor, was professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He was the author ofEdith Wharton- A Biography,The American Adam,The Picaresque Saint,Trials of the Word, andThe Poetry of Hart Crane.
“To read the four novels in this volume is to become impressed anew with Wharton’s powers as a satirist—you could almost say a black humorist—and to be struck, perhaps for the first time, by the cool modernism of her writing.” —The New York Times Book Review
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