Edith Wharton

The great American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) here gives us her colorful and textured travel memoir "In Morroco" (1920). Still a deeply energized work, Wharton imbues the reader with a sense of wonder that served as the impetus for her travels into this exotic Northern African land. Edith Wharton made her name as a novelist closely associated with the prolific Henry James. Their personal and literary kinship may be seen in much of her long...

Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies...

Edith Wharton was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels of social and psychological insight. She was also well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt....

A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France. As the Whartons embark on three separate journeys through the country in 1906 and 1907, accompanied first by Edith's brother, Harry Jones, and then by Henry James, Edith is enamored by the freedom that this new form of transport has given her. With a keen eye for architecture and art,...

"Crucial Instances" is a classic short story collection by Edith Wharton, first published in 1901. The book contains a collection of seven stories, including "The Duchess at Prayer", "The Angel at the Grave", "The Recovery", "Copy: A Dialogue", "The Rembrandt", "The Moving Finger", and "The Confessional".

"Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort" is a 1918 collection of articles written by American writer Edith Wharton. The articles are based on the time that she spent in France during the First World War, including her tips to the French areas on the Western Front. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in life during the Great War, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wharton's seminal work.

The Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Age of Innocence explores the supernatural and other unknowns in six short stories. The acclaimed Gilded Age author travels around the world and into the unknown with these six tales. After recovering from a bad fever in a Swiss sanitorium, an American pays a social call to a friend's lonely sister on the coast of Brittany, but his journey takes a terrifying turn in "Miss Mary Pask." A wealthy resident of...

Twenty-one-year-old Lewis Raycie about to embark on a Grand Tour, is advised by his father to seek out works of art for a gallery with their family name. However, when Lewis returns, the paintings he has selected are not what his father expected. Art Fiction is a literary genre in which art is not solely an object, but is a reflection of what is human in all of us. Other examples are: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier Glimpses of Gauguin...

Francophile Wharton, an American buried in Versailles, was one of the few foreign front-line correspondents in France during World War I. A passionate advocate for the French national cause, this 1918 novella of a young American soldier in the Foreign Legion takes the United States to task for its slow aid to its ally.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Triumph Of Night" (1916) by Edith Wharton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.