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Edith Wharton



Wharton, Edith (1862–1937), U.S. novelist, poet, and short-story writer. She wrote subtle and acerbic accounts of society in New York, New England, and Europe, including The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), and The Age of Innocence (1920; Pulitzer Prize).



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