Edith Wharton

Birth: 1862-01-24 , Nova Iorque

Death: 1937-08-11 , Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt

Edith Wharton was an American novelist and short story writer, known for her penetrating depictions of American high society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her works often explore themes of social class, morality, and the constraints placed upon women. She is considered one of the most important writers in American literature.

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One cares so little for the style in which one’s praises are written.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances at any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.

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Edith Wharton was born on January 24, 1862, in New York City. Hailing from a wealthy family, her privileged upbringing provided her with access to a wide range of cultural and social experiences. Wharton began writing poetry and short stories in her youth, but it was with her novels that she achieved international fame. "The Age of Innocence," published in 1920, earned her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making her the first woman to win such an honor. Other notable works include "The House of Mirth" and "Ethan Frome." Her writing is characterized by an elegant style, a keen eye for human psychology, and a subtle critique of social conventions. Wharton spent much of her adult life in Europe, particularly in France, where she also served as a nurse during World War I. She passed away on August 11, 1937.