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Library of America Edith Wharton Edition Ser.: Edith Wharton : Novellas and Other Writings (LOA #47) by Edith Wharton (1990, Hardcover)
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Collected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton: novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography, A Backward Glance . Together they represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished and admired of American writers. Madame de Treymes (1907) is set in fashionable Paris society, where a once free-spirited American woman is trying to extricate herself, with the help of a fellow countryman, from her marriage to an aristocratic Frenchman. Such a village is the scene of Ethan Frome (1911), a tale of marital entrapment even more relentless. Ethan's unhappy marriage and his desperate love for his wife's cousin Mattie drive him to an act of shattering violence. The magnificent coda is a classic of American realistic fiction. Set in the same region of the Berkshires, Wharton called Summer (1917) "the Hot Ethan." It is the story of a young woman's initiation into the intricate sexual and social mores of a small town--and her revolt against them. Observations of the American scene continue in the four novellas that make up Old New York (1924). They take us from the 1840s of "False Dawn," where a young man is ostracized for his avant garde taste in art, to the 1870s of "New Year's Day," where a domestic scandal unfolds. The poignancies of parenthood are also the theme of The Mother's Recompense (1925). Kate Clephane, a divorced woman who has been living in Europe, returns to New York to find her former lover engaged to her daughter--and to face the emotional tangles of this unusual triangle. The fullest portraits of New York are saved for A Backward Glance (1934), one of the most compelling of American autobiographies. Another perspective is offered in "Life and I," an autobiographical fragment that shows a younger Wharton writing with great frankness about her early life. It is published here for the first time. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-100940450534
ISBN-139780940450530
eBay Product ID (ePID)552135
Product Key Features
Number of Pages1137 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEdith Wharton : Novellas and Other Writings (Loa #47)
Publication Year1990
SubjectPsychological, Satire, Literary
Subject AreaFiction
AuthorEdith Wharton
SeriesLibrary of America Edith Wharton Edition Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight25 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN89-062930
Reviews"The Library of America has now followed its initial Wharton collection, containing the major novels, with a second one devoted to her shorter fiction and autobiographical writings. . . . Edith Wharton's triumph as an artist is finally that her personal quest for identity became the basis for a larger vision. Cynthia Griffin Wolff traces the writer's evolution from emotionally disenfranchised child to completely realized novelist." -- New York Newsday
Grade fromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number2
Target AudienceTrade
IllustratedYes
Lc Classification NumberPs3545.H16.A6 1990
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- 18 May, 2016
Edith Wharton's Novels and Novells Library of America volumes
These are both nice books providing a fairly complete selection of Wharton's better known writings. They were a great bargain at seven dollars for the both of them. I have seen them go at thirteen and fourteen dollars apiece and these were both first editions. They are printed on acid free paper as are the dust jackets made to last indefinitely. Of course, I had The age of Innocence already and also The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country all in paperbacks separately but it was nice to get them all together in hardback. I didn't have The Reef though. Of those pieces included in the novellas I didn't have Madame de Treymes, Ethan Frome, Summer, or The Mother's Recompense. I have been an Edith Wharton fan of sorts since I happened to pick up The Age of Innocence in WSU Eau Claire college bookstore in fall 1967 by accident. It wasn't required reading for any course; I was just looking for books to forget my homesickness in. The Library of America is a wonderful series of books, well executed in concept and design. I have had other volumes from it--William Dean Howells, for example--and enjoyed them as well. I recommend these books.--PEGGY D. (hithertos)Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Oct, 2020
Edith Wharton’s Novellas
Item as described and excellent packaging. It is now on my waiting to be read table. Anticipating it will be a good read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
