Edith Wharton (1861-1937), American author, chronicled the life of affluent Americans between the Civil War and World War I. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City, probably on Jan. 24, 1861. Like many other biographical facts, she k...
While at the close of her career Edith Wharton was sometimes regarded as passe, a literary aristocrat whose fiction about people of high social standing had little to tell about the masses, particularly during the Jazz Age and the Depression, a counterva...
Perhaps the most striking thing about Edith Wharton 's reputation as a novelist is the fact that she has been "reclaimed" so many times. This fact seems all the more remarkable when one reflects that before her death in 1937, her novels and short stories...
Dan Farrell. Krupskaya [SPD. dist.], $9 (64p) ISBN 1-928650-01-5 Even at its most spare, the Canadian-born Farrell's prose poetry creates an atmosphere reminiscent of Kafka in its ever-recursive replays of alienating social formulas. Indeed, the poem "K," centering around the narrator's "phone tag"...
00-00-0000 An instance of divine providence? VIRGINIA ROHAN Date: 12-16-2002, Monday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition "Providence" began with a wedding, and the NBC drama may end - this week - with nuptials. Friday night's two-hour episode (8 p.m.)...
