Ethan Frome (AmazonClassics Edition) by Edith Wharton
Xingu' is a short story about a woman's luncheon club devised as a means of keeping its members up to date with the latest goings on in the world. After the glamorous novelist Osric Dane stuns the other women with her bored disposition and blunt questions, the conversation is left stale - that is, until the previously quiet Mrs. Roby mentions the topic of Xingu. Thought mad by the rest of her peers, Mrs. Roby is suddenly engaged by a now-inquisitive Ms. Dane, and subsequently the rest of the party becomes entirely engrossed with the mystery of Xingu. A witty and veritably comical narrative sure to entertain all who read it, 'Xingu' is a masterpiece of short story-writing and is a must-read for fans of Wharton's seminal work. Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and designer. This antique book was originally published in 1916, and we are proud to republish it now, complete with a new introductory biography of the author.
Born in New York City, Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist, short story, and travel writer; a literary critic, poet, memoirist, and playwright; and a prolific Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize. Well educated and raised in wealth, Edith, whose love of writing came early, published her first poem at fifteen. It was a personal triumph for her, though less so for her family, who believed it unseemly for an upper-class girl’s name to appear in print. Such social restrictions that defined her youth would inform her ironic social satires and psychological portraits of America’s privileged class. Although she didn’t publish her first novel until she was forty, thereafter her prodigious output included such acclaimed works as The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781542049269 |
| ISBN 10 | 1542049261 |
| Title | Ethan Frome (AmazonClassics Edition) |
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amazon Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 122 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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