In “The Day of the Funeral,” “Joy in the House,” and “Atrophy,” love and desire confront the demands of polite society in “Roman Fever,” a formal tour de force, two middle-aged women on holiday with their modern daughters revisit the fierce competitiveness of their own youth. As always, Wharton’s is a provocative voice on the subject of sexuality and women’s roles. In this Library of America collection, the second of two volumes, Wharton’s humor is abundantly evident in sly and subtle stories like “Xingu” (in which a ladies’ reading group is led to express its enthusiasm for an occult philosophy) and “Charm Incorporated” (about a mild-mannered Wall Street executive overwhelmed by his émigré wife’s needy but wonderful relatives). In settings familiar and exotic, Edith Wharton’s stories exhibit characteristic qualities and themes: her candid exploration of relations between the sexes her satire, sometimes gentle, sometimes despairing, of social class and its distinctions her keen-eyed observation of the minutiae of character her unflinching recognition of the power of conventional morality and the limits of passion, tempered by her delightful sense of play. Penn State's Electronic Classics Series has made Wharton's works available in Adobe Acrobat (.Save $25.00 when you buy both volumes of Edith Wharton’s stories. The University of Virginia Text Center has made available free versions of Wharton's stories, poems, and novels for PalmOS devices and Microsoft E-books Readers. Bunner Sisters - 186 KB (See also the Project Gutenberg version at ).The Project Gutenberg collection of Edith Wharton's works includes computer-generated audio files.

The Buccaneers (1938) (searchable full text at Michigan)Īvailable for PalmPilot and other handheld computers at (free). The Spark, False Dawn, New Year's Day, The Old Maid Pictures from the first edition of The House of Mirth You can also get free, computer-generated audiobook versions of some of these works at Project Gutenberg.

Contemporary reviews of Edith Wharton's works are available online at the University of Virginia E-text Center.

Illustrations from the first edition of The House of Mirthįor information on films made from Edith Wharton's works, go to the Edith Wharton Filmography.

An Edith Wharton Chronology (includes more exact dates of publication)Įdith Wharton's stories with original dates of publication

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