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Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth , perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome , The Custom of the Country , Summer and The Age of Innocence . Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.>

About the author

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

Product details

• Authors: Edith Wharton
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.07.2026
• EAN: 9780241820247
• ISBN: 978-0-241-82024-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 167 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Little Clothbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA), Classic fiction: literary and general