Best known for the distinctive portraits of the people and land of the American West in her prairie novels, Willa Cather is one of the greatest American writers of this century. The fourteen short stories in this richly diverse collection, along with an exemplary introduction by author Cynthia Griffin Wolff, allow for a more complex view of Cather. As a writer she was intrigued by nature's ruthlessness and mankind's limitless potential for brutality and had a passion for the beauty of art. Ranging from the simplicity of Cather's first published story, "Peter" (1892), to the extraordinary eroticism of "Coming, Aphrodite!" (1920), this Twentieth-Century Classics collection is an engaging and triumphant testament to the genius of an American literary icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin

O'Connor, Margaret Anne

Cather., Willa

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

A biographical account of Wharton's against-the-odds development as an important novelist accompanies detailed readings of her major novels and of her unpublished fictions and autobiographical recollections

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton

Oxford University Press

Combining literary and psychological analysis, the biography of Edith Wharton explores the relationship between a woman novelist's life and art

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Cynthia Griffin Wolff's brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of the poems that will enable every reader to approach them with new understanding and delight.

Emily Dickinson (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Da Capo

The recent film versions of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome have returned Edith Wharton to her rightful place as a major American novel ist. No one who admires her novels or enjoys the films will want to be without this superb critical biography with a new introduction and two new chapters. Photos.

A Feast Of Words: The Triumph Of Edith Wharton (Radcliffe Biography Series)

History

Da Capo Press

Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American poet and analyzes all of her major poems

Emily Dickinson

Alfred.A. Knopf

First published in 1913 and regarded by many critics as her most substantial novel, The Custom of the Country is Edith Wharton's powerful saga about the beautiful, ruthless Undine Spragg. A woman of extraordinary ambition and exuberant vitality, Undine is consigned by virtue of her sex to the shadow world of the drawing room and boudoir. Marriage remains the one institution through which she can exercise her will as she entrances man after man, marrying one after the other with protean facility and almost monstrous avidity. A novel that ranges from New York to Paris, from Apex City, Kansas, to Reno, Nevada, The Custom of the Country stands as a dark satire of American business, society, and the nouveaux riches, and as Edith Wharton's contribution to the tradition of the American epic.

The Custom of the Country

WHARTON,EDITH

Scribner

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Coming, Aphrodite! And Other Stories

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton

A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton

Emily Dickinson (Radcliffe Biography Series)

A Feast Of Words: The Triumph Of Edith Wharton (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Emily Dickinson

The Custom of the Country