Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton combined an insider's view of American aristocracy with a powerful prose style. Her novels and short stories realistically portrayed the lives and morals of the late nineteenth century, an era of decline and faded wealth. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921, and was the first woman to receive this honor. Wharton was acquainted with many of the well-known people of her day, both in America and in Europe, including President Theodore Roosevelt.
This collection contains 11 short stories and 32 poems by Edith Wharton originally published in magazines between 1880 -1927 and include the following:
STORIES:
Mrs. Manstey’s View
The Fulness of Life
The Lamp of Psyche
That Good May Come
The Valley of Childish Things and Other Emblems
April Showers
Line of Least Resistance
The House of the Dead Hand
The Introducers
Writing a War Story
All Souls’
POEMS:
The Parting Day, Aeropagus, Patience, A Failure, Wants, The Last Giustianini, Euryalus, Happiness, Botticelli’s Madonna in the Louvre, The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi, The Sonnet, Experience, Chartres, Jade, Phaedra, The One Grief, Mould and Vase, Uses, The Bread of Angels, Moonrise over Tyringham, Ogrin the Hermit, The Comrade, Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex), Pomegranate Seed, The Hymn of the Lusitania, The Great Blue Tent, Battle Sleep, On Active Service, You and You, With the Tide, Belgium, Terminus
