For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton\'s birth: her Three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired Deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention.
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Jonathan Franzen is the author of the Novels Freedom and The Corrections, which won the National Book Award.
She wrote more than forty books, among them Ethan Frome and Summer.
About the Author: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is the first woman to win the Pultizer Prize.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finac e\'s cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced.
The Custom of the Country follows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating.
The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money.
This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York.
For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton\'s birth: her Three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired Deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention
