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...Author. Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a New Yorker by birth and a cosmopolitan by inclination. She was born in 1862 and has been in the literary limelight for almost 25 years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France...
...FRONT?Edith Wbarton? Scribner...
...best art works possible. . . . They backed up their enthusiasm by sending a liberal check to cover the cost of the project." Pieces in Mr. Barrie's shipment were by John F. Carlson, George Elmer Browne, John Gregory, Charles H. Davis, Frederick Ballard Williams, Harriett W. Frishmuth, Hobart Nichols, Edith B. Parsons, Edward McCartan, Mario Korbell. The total art sales of the fair were about...
...mother is Edith Ayrton Zangwill, daughter of a professor and herself an authoress. But I attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting...
...enthusiasm for her latest book is unqualified. One of Ours, her story of the War, which was awarded one of the Pulitzer Prizes last year, I did not care for. It is not nearly so wise a book as Edith Wharton's poignant A Son at the Front or Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat. A Lost Lady, however, is a character study of strength and beauty. The story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture...