Edith Wharton & August Nemo 
Essential Novelists – Edith Wharton 
anxieties of the upper class

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.
For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Edith Wharton which are The Age of Innocenceand Ethan Frome.
Edith Wharton is best known for her stories and novels about the upper-class society into which she was born.
Novels selected for this book:
– The Age of Innocence
– Ethan Frome
This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

About the author

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper class New York ‘aristocracy’ to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1996.