THE GODS ARRIVE Edith Wharton NOVEL 1st Edition 2nd Printing FICTION 1932

Description: The Gods Arrive by Edith Wharton She is the 1st female to have won the Pulitzer Prize 1932 ~ 1st Edition, 2nd Printing w/ (2) on last page Appleton, 1932. VG for age. Mild rubbing, edge/corner wear, surface flaws. Endpapers blind stamped, DJ flap pasted to interior cover, toned and tight. Wharton last completed novel, a sequel to Hudson River Bracketed. A quality collectible copy! Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer and designer.The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature,making her the first woman to win the award. She spoke flawless French as well as several other languages and many of her books were published in both French and English. Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her time: Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Jean Cocteau, and André Gide were all guests of hers at one time or another. Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark were valued friends as well, and she was the godmother of Clarks second son, Colin (1932–2002), who wrote the book The Prince, the Showgirl and Me about his work as third assistant director of the film The Prince and the Showgirl. Her meeting with F. Scott Fitzgerald is described by the editors of her letters as one of the better-known failed encounters in the American literary annals. She was also good friends with Theodore Roosevelt.Many of Whartons novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony. Having grown up in upper-class pre-World War I society, Wharton became one of its most astute critics. In such works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence she employed both humor and profound empathy to describe the lives of New Yorks upper-class and the vanishing of their world in the early years of the 20th century. In contrast, she used a harsher tone in her novel Ethan Frome to convey the atmosphere of lower-class rural Massachusetts. In addition to penning several respected novels, Wharton produced a wealth of short stories and is particularly well regarded for her ghost stories.

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