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Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 – August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics. In such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence she employed both humor and profound empathy to describe the lives of New York's upper-class and the vanishing of their world in the early years of the 20th century.

Contents 1 Books 1.1 Novels 1.2 Short story collections 1.3 Poetry 1.4 Non-fiction 1.5 As editor

Books

Novels

• The Touchstone, 1900
• The Valley of Decision, 1902
• Sanctuary, 1903
• The House of Mirth, 1905
• Madame de Treymes, 1907
• The Fruit of the Tree, 1907
• Ethan Frome, 1911
• The Reef, 1912
• The Custom of the Country, 1913
• Summer, 1917
• The Marne, 1918
• The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner)
• The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922
• A Son at the Front, 1923
• Old New York, 1924
• The Mother's Recompense, 1925
• Twilight Sleep, 1927
• The Children, 1928
• Hudson River Bracketed, 1929
• The Gods Arrive, 1932
• The Buccaneers, 1938
• Fast and Loose, 1938 (first novel, written in 1876-1877)

Short story collections

• The Greater Inclination, 1899
• Crucial Instances, 1901
• The Descent of Man and Other Stories, 1903
• The Other Two, 1904
• The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories, 1908
• Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910
• Xingu and Other Stories, 1916
• Here and Beyond, 1926
• Certain People, 1930
• Human Nature, 1933
• The World Over, 1936
• Ghosts, 1937

Poetry

• Verses, 1878
• Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, 1909
• Twelve Poems, 1926

Non-fiction

• The Decoration of Houses, 1897
• Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 1904
• Italian Backgrounds, 1905
• A Motor-Flight Through France, 1908 (travel)
• Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war)
• French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919
• In Morocco, 1920 (travel)
• The Writing of Fiction, 1925 (essays on writing)
• A Backward Glance, 1934 (autobiography)

As editor

• The Book of the Homeless, 1916