Edith Wharton
Books by Edith Wharton
My Dear Governess
The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann
by Edith Wharton and Irene C. Goldman-Price
- Hardcover, 296 pages
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'Age Of Desire': How Wharton Lost Her 'Innocence'
by Lynn Neary
Jennie Fields' new novel, The Age of Desire, reimagines Edith Wharton's fling with a young journalist and the obsession that accompanied its fallout. Without that experience, Fields says, Wharton's The Age of Innocence would not have been the same.
Critics' Lists: Summer 2012
Book Party For One: A Loner's Summer Survival Guide
Summer is a trying time for introverts, what with the barbecues and the graduations and the picnics by the pool. If you'd always choose a good book over a good party, critic Maureen Corrigan has a list for you.
Three Books...
Three Stories Of Gossip Not Even Austen Could Resist
by Helen Simonson
Novels of manners never get old. Any quick flip through one of today's celebrity magazines will prove that. From social climbers to spouse grabbers, century to century, nothing changes. Author Helen Simonson offers three novels for going beyond Jane Austen's gossip.
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Finding Balance and Pleasure in 'The House of Mirth'
by Mireille Guiliano
As a young woman living in Paris in 1968, author Mireille Guiliano found friendship — and frustration — in Lily Bart, Edith Wharton's naïve, self-interested heroine who struggles to make decisions that are in her self-interest.
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