Product Description: The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar. "Contexts" constructs the historical foundation for this very historical novel...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides examinations and interpretations of several works by Wharton, and concentrates on the theme of women as artist

Product Description: This collection focuses on questions of biography, autobiography and aesthetics in Wharton's works, with particular attention to gender, race and class. The volume high-lights previously unpublished manuscripts and letters - notably, an unfinished short story in Italian and Wharton's correspondence with her niece Beatrix Farrand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A selection of twenty early short stories deal with marriage, social tragedies, and the conflict between money and virtue, delusion and integrity, and life and art