Author:Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
(1862–1937)
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Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer; 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 and short stories of social and psychological insight.
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Edith Wharton

Works

Novels

Novellas

Poems

Short stories

Collections
  • The Greater Inclination (1899) (external scan)
  • The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904) (transcription project)
  • Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910) short stories, serially published as Tales of Men in Scribner's Magazine, 1909-1910 IA
Individual stories

Non-fiction

  • The Decoration of Houses, with Ogden Codman 1897 IA
  • "A Midsummer Week's Dream: August in Italy," Scribner's Magazine, Aug 1902
  • "Picturesque Milan", in Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1903
  • Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 1904
  • Italian Backgrounds, 1905
  • A Motor-Flight Through France, 1908 (travel)
  • "George Cabot Lodge", in Scribner's Magazine, Feb 1910
  • Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war) (start transcription)
  • "In Argonne," Scribner's Magazine, Jun 1915
  • "In Lorraine and the Vosges," Scribner's Magazine, Oct 1915
  • "In the North," Scribner's Magazine, Nov 1915
  • "The Look of Paris" (August, 1914—February, 1915), Scribner's Magazine, 1915
  • French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919
  • In Morocco, 1920 (travel) (transcription project)
  • The Writing of Fiction, 1925 (essays on writing) (transcription project)
  • A Backward Glance, 1934 (autobiography)
  • Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings, Edited by Frederick Wegener, 1996
  • Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888–1920, Edited by Sarah Bird Wright, 1995

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1937, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 87 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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