Godina izdanja: 2001
ISBN: 978-1883011949
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Collected Stories 1911-1937 Hardcover – January 29, 2001
by Edith Wharton (Author), Maureen Howard (Editor)
Product details
Item Weight: 1.27 pounds
Hardcover: 848 pages
Product Dimensions : 5.18 x 1.04 x 8.17 inches
Publisher: Library of America (January 29, 2001)
Reading level: 18 and up
Language: English
Born into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional writer, earning an enduring place as the grande dame of American letters. This Library of America collection (along with its companion volume, Collected Stories: 1891–1910) presents the finest of Wharton`s achievement in short fiction, drawn from the more than eighty stories she published over the course of her career.

In this volume, Wharton’s humor is abundantly evident in sly and subtle stories like “Xingu” (in which a ladies’ reading group is led to express its enthusiasm for an occult philosophy) and “Charm Incorporated” (about a mild-mannered Wall Street executive overwhelmed by his émigré wife’s needy but wonderful relatives). As always, Wharton’s is a provocative voice on the subject of sexuality and women’s roles. In “The Day of the Funeral,” “Joy in the House,” and “Atrophy,” love and desire confront the demands of polite society; in “Roman Fever,” a formal tour de force, two middle-aged women on holiday with their modern daughters revisit the fierce competitiveness of their own youth.

Of particular interest are Wharton’s stories of the uncanny and the supernatural, like the grisly “A Bottle of Perrier,” set in the North African desert, and the chilling “All Souls’,” written just before her death. An unacknowledged master of American horror fiction, Wharton’s lucid prose makes all the more powerful her exploration of the irrational forces underlying ordinary life.

Also included in this edition are a chronology of Wharton’s life, explanatory notes, and an essay on the texts.
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