num_pages: 177
description: In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence . But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.
language: English
title: The Descent of Man and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Descent of Man and Other Stories
genres: 20th Century, American, Classics, Female Authors, American Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 146
publisher: Alan Rodgers Books