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The Dilettante and Other Stories

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Edith Wharton , born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several influential books, including The Decoration of Houses , her first published work, and Italian Villas and Their Gardens . The Age of Innocence , perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. Her other works include: The Greater Inclination , The Touchstone , Sanctuary , The Descent of Man and Other Stories , The House of Mirth , Madame de Treymes , The Fruit of the Tree , The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories , Ethan Frome , In Morocco , and The Glimpses of the Moon .

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2008

ISBN 13: 9781409900900

The Dilettante and Other Stories

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Edith Wharton , born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time. She wrote several influential books, including The Decoration of Houses , her first published work, and Italian Villas and Their Gardens . The Age of Innocence , perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award. Her other works include: The Greater Inclination , The Touchstone , Sanctuary , The Descent of Man and Other Stories , The House of Mirth , Madame de Treymes , The Fruit of the Tree , The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories , Ethan Frome , In Morocco , and The Glimpses of the Moon .

Language: English

Pages: 80

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 2008

ISBN 13: 9781409900900

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