| BOOKS BY EDITH WHARTON
PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS |
[12mo, $1.50] The Fruit of the Tree "Dramatic, absorbing, and well written."—New York Sun. "It marks the utmost achievement of the present-day novelist."—Baltimore Sun. "Her precision and directness in delineation of character are far beyond that of any of the novelists of to-day." |
[12mo, $1.50] The House of Mirth "It is a great American novel, intensely interesting, marvelous in its literary finish and powerful in its delineation of Lily Bart."—Philadelphia Press. |
[12mo, $1.00] Madame de Treymes "We know of no book in which the virtues of the short story are united with the virtues of the novel in a higher degree than in this instance."—New York Sun. |
[12mo, $1.50] The Hermit and the Wild Woman The Hermit and the Wild Woman The Pretext The Best Man Stories published between 1904 and 1908 showing her supreme power and skill as a writer of short stories unsurpassed in modern literature. |
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[12mo, $1.50] Tales of Men and Ghosts "A remarkable collection of stories. In the flood of modern books literary quality such as Mrs. Wharton shows is almost unknown."—New York Sun. "Not since George Eliot has a woman so thoroughly understood the psychology of the male sex, and without exception no one has presented a more powerful analysis in literary form."—Philadelphia Inquirer. |
[12mo, $1.50] The Greater Inclination "Between these stories and those of the ordinary entertaining sort there is a great gulf fixed." The Dial. |
[12mo, $1.50] Crucial Instances "Tragedy and comedy, pathos and humor, are mingled in these pages of brilliant writing and splendid imagination." |
[12mo, $1.50] The Valley of Decision "Coming in the midst of an epoch overcrowded with works of fiction, 'The Valley of Decision' stands out giant-like above its surroundings. It stands, indeed, almost without a rival in the modern literary world, and there can be little doubt that it places Mrs. Wharton at once side by side with the greatest novelists of the day." |
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[12mo, $1.25] Sanctuary "This is a striking little book—striking in its simplicity and penetration, its passion and restraint."—London Times. |
[12mo, $1.25] The Touchstone "Its characters are real, their motives and actions thoroughly human. And the author's art is sufficient to bring out the strength of every situation."—The Argonaut. |
[12mo, $1.50] The Descent of Man "It is, of course, the extraordinary directness with which Mrs. Wharton's probe goes to the spot under inspection, the deftness with which she is able to bring to the light of day what we had hidden even from ourselves, that account for the admiration with which we regard her short stories." |
[12mo, $1.25 net] The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben) A play in five acts by Hermann Sudermann. Translated from the German by Edith Wharton. |
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[8vo, $2.00 net. Postpaid $2.20] A Motor Flight Through France CONTENTS Boulogne to Amiens Royat to Bourges A trip through many parts of France, not to the larger cities, but to the smaller and out-of-the-way towns not often visited and little known, and above all through the country itself. With grace and lightness of touch, Mrs. Wharton gives an impression of a town, a castle, a church, suggesting its charm, its story, and its look to-day with inimitable skill. |
[8vo, $2.50 net] Italian Backgrounds "Belongs in that small class of books of observation which are also books of artistic and spiritual interpretation; which not only describe places and monuments, but convey an impression of peoples, a sense of society, with the elusive atmosphere in which everything of historical or artistic value is seen by those who have the gift of sight." |
[Large 8vo, $2.50 net] The Decoration of Houses With 56 full-page illustrations, by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr. |