Edith Wharton: Novellas & Other Writings (LOA #47): Madame de Treymes / Ethan Frome / Summer / Old New York / The Mother's Recompense / A Backward Glance / "Life and I"

Collected in this Library of America volume are no fewer than six of the works of Edith Wharton: novels, novellas, and her renowned autobiography, A Backward Glance. Together they represent nearly a quarter century in the productive life of one of the most accomplished and admired of American writers.

Madame de Treymes (1907) is set in fashionable Paris society, where a once free-spirited American woman is trying to extricate herself, with the help of a fellow countryman, from her marriage t...