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The Edith Wharton Omnibus

Edith Wharton

出版	Scribner, 1978
主題	Fiction / Literary
ISBN	06841597329780684159737
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kqxbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In his brilliant introduction to the present volume, the noted writer Gore Vidal makes this comment: "At best, there are only three or four American novelists who can be thought of as 'major' and Edith Wharton is one. ... I can only say that I envy anyone reading for the first time The Age of Innocence or New Year's Day." In these works, as in most of Mrs. Wharton's fiction, her subject is America's upper classes as they flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alive with her inimitable wit and rich with her feeling for drama, her stories carry us from the glitter of New York's high society to the grace and elegance of Newport. The works that make up The Edith Wharton Omnibus are among her very best -- and Edith Wharton's best is very good indeed, ranked by many critics as equal to the novels of her contemporary, Henry James.