num_pages: 216
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
publisher: Dodo Press