Ίντιθ Γουόρτον

Η Ίντιθ Γουόρτον (γενν. Edith Newbold Jones, 24 Ιανουαρίου 1862 – 11 Αυγούστου 1937) ήταν Αμερικανίδα μυθιστοριογράφος, συγγραφέας μικρών ιστοριών, θεατρική συγγραφέας και σχεδιάστρια. Με βάση τις γνώσεις της για την ανώτερη τάξη της Νέας Υόρκης παρουσίασε με ρεαλιστικό τρόπο την ζωή και την ηθική της αμερικανικής ζωής των τελών του 19ου αιώνα. Το 1921 ήταν η πρώτη γυναίκα που κέρδισε το Πούλιτζερ Λογοτεχνίας. Μπήκε στο National Women's Hall of Fame το 1996.

Εργογραφία

Μυθιστορήματα
 The Valley of Decision, 1902
 The House of Mirth, 1905
 The Fruit of the Tree, 1907
 The Reef, 1912
 The Custom of the Country, 1913
 The Triumph of Night, 1916
 Summer, 1917
 The Marne, 1918
 The Age of Innocence, 1920 (Pulitzer Prize winner)
 The Glimpses of the Moon, 1922
 A Son at the Front, 1923
 The Mother's Recompense, 1925
 Twilight Sleep, 1927
 The Children, 1928
 Hudson River Bracketed, 1929
 The Gods Arrive, 1932
 The Buccaneers, 1938 (unfinished)

Νουβέλες
 The Touchstone, 1900
 Sanctuary, 1903
 Madame de Treymes, 1907
 Ethan Frome, 1911
 Bunner Sisters, 1916
 Old New York, 19241. False Dawn; 2. The Old Maid; 3. The Spark; 4. New Year's Day
 Fast and Loose: A Novelette, 1938 (written in 1876–1877)

Ποίηση
 Verses, 1878
 Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, 1909
 Twelve Poems, 1926

Συλλογή μικρών ιστοριών
 The Greater Inclination, 1899, includes Souls Belated.
 Crucial Instances, 1901
 The Descent of Man and Other Stories, 1904
 The Other Two, 1904
 The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories, 1908
 Tales of Men and Ghosts, 1910
 Xingu and Other Stories, 1916
 Here and Beyond, 1926
 Certain People, 1930
 Human Nature, 1933
 The World Over, 1936
 Ghosts, 1937
 Roman Fever and Other Stories, 1964
 Madame de Treymes and Others: Four Novelettes, 1970
 The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, 1973
 The Collected Stories of Edith Wharton, 1998 (Carroll & Graf Publishers; paperback, 640 pages)
 The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, 2007

Non-fiction
 The Decoration of Houses, 1897
 Italian Villas and Their Gardens, 1904
 Italian Backgrounds, 1905
 A Motor-Flight Through France, 1908 (travel)
 Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort, 1915 (war)
 French Ways and Their Meaning, 1919
 In Morocco, 1920 (travel)
 The Writing of Fiction, 1925 (essays on writing)
 A Backward Glance, 1934 (autobiography)
 Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings, Edited by Frederick Wegener, 1996
 Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888–1920, 1995, Edited by Sarah Bird Wright

Ως εκδότης
 The Book of the Homeless, 1916

Παραπομπές

Βιβλιογραφία

Περαιτέρω μελέτη 
 Armbruster, Elif S. (2011) "Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home." New York: Peter Lang ()
 Benstock, Shari (1994) No Gifts From Chance: a biography of Edith Wharton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Collas, Philippe and Eric Villedary, Edith Wharton's French Riviera (2002) Paris, New York : Flammarion/Rizzoli ()
Drizou, Myrto, ed. Critical Insights: Edith Wharton (2018) Salem Press.
 Dwight, Eleanor. (1994) Edith Wharton: An Extraordinary Life, An Illustrated Biography New York: Harry N. Abrams.

 Hutchinson, Hazel (2015). The War That Used Up Words: American Writers and the First World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
 Lee, Hermione (2007) Edith Wharton. London: Chatto & Windus; New York: Knopf.
 Lewis, R. W. B. (1975) Edith Wharton: a biography New York: Harper & Row 
 
 Montgomery, Maureen E. (1998) Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton's New York New York: Routledge. 
Novellas and Other Writings (Cynthia Griffin Wolff, ed.) (The Library of America, 1990) , which contains her autobiography, A Backward Glance.
The Letters of Edith Wharton (R. W. B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis, eds.) , particularly the editorial introductions to the chronological sections, especially for 1902–07, 1911–14, 1919–27, and 1928–37, and the editorial footnotes to the letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (8 June 1925)
Twilight Sleep (R. F. Godfrey, ed.) 
 Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (1977) A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton Oxford. 
 Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (1995) A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton, Second Edition. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.

Παραπομπές

Εξωτερικοί σύνδεσμοι

Edith Wharton Collection Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
The Edith Wharton Papers at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
Edith Wharton Society
The Mount: Estate and gardens designed by Edith Wharton
"Writings of Edith Wharton" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

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