Italian Backgrounds (Classic Reprint)
Edith Wharton(1862-1937) was born into a distinguished New York family and was educated privately in the United States and abroad. Among her best-known work is <I>Ethan Frome</I> (1911), which is considered her greatest tragic story, <I>The House of Mirth</I> (1905), and <I>The Age of Innocence</I> (1920), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.</P>--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.