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Edith Wharton


Born
in New York City, The United States
January 24, 1862

Died
August 11, 1937

Genre
Fiction

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Edith Wharton was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel, The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.
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Average rating: 3.81 · 541,674 ratings · 39,935 reviews · 1,059 distinct works • Similar authors
The Age of Innocence
3.97 avg rating — 184,372 ratings — published 1920 — 3861 editions
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Ethan Frome
3.45 avg rating — 132,370 ratings — published 1911 — 3134 editions
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The House of Mirth
3.97 avg rating — 101,522 ratings — published 1905 — 12 editions
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Summer
3.67 avg rating — 16,869 ratings — published 1917 — 1000 editions
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The Custom of the Country
4.06 avg rating — 14,943 ratings — published 1913 — 872 editions
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Ethan Frome and Other Short...
3.67 avg rating — 15,176 ratings — published 1911 — 3 editions
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The Buccaneers
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3.87 avg rating — 7,621 ratings — published 1938 — 59 editions
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The Ghost Stories of Edith ...
3.90 avg rating — 4,822 ratings — published 1934 — 33 editions
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The Glimpses of the Moon
3.85 avg rating — 4,481 ratings — published 1922 — 448 editions
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Old New York
4.04 avg rating — 2,351 ratings — published 1924 — 113 editions
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton
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“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses
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“My little old dog
a heart-beat
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― Edith Wharton
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