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Edith Wharton

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Edith Wharton, born Edith Newbold Jones, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton was born to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander. She had two brothers, Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward. The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" is said to refer to the family of her father. She shared a lifelong friendship with her Rhinelander niece, renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand, at 'Reef Point', in New York City and often together with Henry James in Europe. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well-acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt.

Q. D. Leavis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Queenie Dorothy ('Queenie') Leavis (7 December 1906 - 17 March 1981), née Roth, was an English literary critic and essayist. Born in Edmonton, England, she wrote about the historical sociology of reading and the development of the English, the European, and the American novel. She paid particular attention to the writings of Jane Austen, George Eliot, Herman Melville, the Brontës, Edith Wharton and Charles Dickens. Much of her work was published collaboratively with her husband, F. R. Leavis. She contributed to and supported as an editor Scrutiny (1932-1951), an influential journal that claimed to promote a stringent and morally serious approach to literary criticism. Her collected essays which include some previously unpublished writings are available in three volumes. The mathematician Leonard Roth was her brother.

Elsie de Wolfe

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Elsie de Wolfe (also known as Lady Mendl (December 20, 1865? - July 12, 1950) was an American interior decorator, nominal author of the influential 1913 book "The House in Good Taste," and a prominent figure in New York, Paris, and London society. During her married life, the press usually referred to her as Lady Mendl.

Louis Auchincloss

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Louis Stanton Auchincloss (September 27, 1917 - January 26, 2010) - pronounced AWK-in-claus - was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his firsthand knowledge into dozens of finely wrought books exploring the private lives of America's East Coast patrician class (especially the world of Wall Street bankers, lawyers and stockbrokers). His dry, ironic fiction continued the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Ethan Frome

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ethan Frome is a novel that was published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in turn-of-the-century New England the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film in 1993. Ethan Frome is set in a fictional, wintry New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with dreams and desires that end in an ironic turn of events. The narrator tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. The novel is framed with the literary conceit of an extended flashback; the first chapter opens with an unnamed narrator, spending a winter in the New England town of Starkfield, who sets out to learn about the life of a mysterious local figure named Ethan Frome, a man who had been injured in a horrific "smash-up" some two decades before.

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The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories by Edith Wharton showcases the masterful short fiction of one of America's most elegant and insightful literary voices. Known for her razor-sharp observations of society, class, and human relationships, Wharton's stories delve into the quiet tensions and hidden passions beneath the surface of genteel life. From tales of moral conflict and social constraint to haunting narratives of psychological depth and subtle irony, this collection spans her full career and reveals the breadth of her storytelling power. With impeccable prose and keen emotional intelligence, Wharton illuminates the complexities of love, ambition, and self-deception, cementing her place as a brilliant chronicler of the human condition.